Self explanatory topic, I'm afraid. Somehow through word of mouth among friends/family/acquaintances, I've gotten a whole slew of people interested in having me do some web development work for them, and while I've dealt with this in regards to computer repairs, I don't know what to do now.
Do I bill at a flat rate, or by the hour? And how much should this change depending on the job? Or does complexity inherently require more time, hence I should just have a standard rate at which I'd like to charge?
While there are some that would take an hour at most to install wordpress and throw in some training too, there are others that involve a lot more, like creating a custom CMS from scratch according to their specific directions...or those people that are so insanely vague yet picky about what they want, so they waste a lot of time and effort going through a gazillion changes to meet their requirements...
Hell, how much do I even begin to determine what I want to be paid? I've had one that gleefully paid $60/hour for all the backend work (i'm a code monkey, not a designer), and another that tried to whittle it down to $10/hour or so for creating a site for her business (ah, screw her, I pointed her in the direction of other devs).
And how would I bill by the hour anyway? Sometimes what one thing takes a few hours to do one day would take an hour on another for whatever reason, or what if I did increments of time, like 15 minutes?
Any tips on this and related topics would be much appreciated
Do I bill at a flat rate, or by the hour? And how much should this change depending on the job? Or does complexity inherently require more time, hence I should just have a standard rate at which I'd like to charge?
While there are some that would take an hour at most to install wordpress and throw in some training too, there are others that involve a lot more, like creating a custom CMS from scratch according to their specific directions...or those people that are so insanely vague yet picky about what they want, so they waste a lot of time and effort going through a gazillion changes to meet their requirements...
Hell, how much do I even begin to determine what I want to be paid? I've had one that gleefully paid $60/hour for all the backend work (i'm a code monkey, not a designer), and another that tried to whittle it down to $10/hour or so for creating a site for her business (ah, screw her, I pointed her in the direction of other devs).
And how would I bill by the hour anyway? Sometimes what one thing takes a few hours to do one day would take an hour on another for whatever reason, or what if I did increments of time, like 15 minutes?
Any tips on this and related topics would be much appreciated