[jamesdelaneyie]

1. Take who the client is, think about how much I like the job, how technically hard it is, how long I'd be at it and the deadline they want and a few other variables then pick a figure from the air that seems good.

2. Word of mouth or chatting to people in person.

3. Fuck no. Faster for me to build a custom site than to wrangle with someone's theme that's been built for the lowest common denominator.

4. A good SEO setup is included in the cost, but I don't write the headlines, meta desc, etc. If I am, that's extra.

Agency for 2 years, Freelance for about 5 in total.

[botterra]

Thank you for comment. 3. Fuck no. Faster for me to build a custom site than to wrangle with someone's theme that's been built for the lowest common denominator. // I understand what are you saying, but sometimes for me it's faster to just buy a theme and set up everything (for example I had one friend who needed small webshop for hand made stuff) then to code everything from ground. What worries me is when making portfolio is it ok to put website that use bought theme?

[jamesdelaneyie]

I invoice that as 'tech management' and charge an hourly rate for it. I would not put it in my portfolio but if the jobs goes well I would get a testimonial from the client.

[davemac8]

My process is very similar. With 4) I charge a yearly maintenance/managed service fee.

[hanniabu]

How do you figure how much to charge? Do you give them x amount of hours a year, use it or lose it? Or structure it some other way?

[botterra]

Thank you for answer; Do you charge clients upfront or?