http://sparkyfirepants.com/bloggitywordypants/flipping-the-rate-model/ Fresh & bright design for licensing Sat, 05 May 2012 02:39:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sparkyfirepants.com/bloggitywordypants/flipping-the-rate-model/comment-page-1/#comment-950 A Sparky Interview with Sarah Bray | Sparky Firepants: Inside the Pants Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:11:06 +0000 http://sparkyfirepants.com/blog/?p=345#comment-950 [...] while back, I asked about ideas of how creatives could flip the usual rate model (rather than the trading-hours-for-cash thing). I wanted to hear about [...] [...] while back, I asked about ideas of how creatives could flip the usual rate model (rather than the trading-hours-for-cash thing). I wanted to hear about [...]

]]> http://sparkyfirepants.com/bloggitywordypants/flipping-the-rate-model/comment-page-1/#comment-949 Kim Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:45:16 +0000 http://sparkyfirepants.com/blog/?p=345#comment-949 When most clients don't want to pay for discovery and planning phases, this seems really impossible to me. On almost every project that I've worked on in the last 18 years that didn't have a discovery and planning phases,the project went over budget. This type of pricing would put the onus on the designer to ask every possible question under the sun up front before estimating. And then the promise that you and the client will be sticking to well-written restrictions and boundaries at the BEGINNING of the project. No exceptions. It would take a massive sea-change to actually do this at an agency so entrenched in their processes. :) When most clients don’t want to pay for discovery and planning phases, this seems really impossible to me. On almost every project that I’ve worked on in the last 18 years that didn’t have a discovery and planning phases,the project went over budget. This type of pricing would put the onus on the designer to ask every possible question under the sun up front before estimating. And then the promise that you and the client will be sticking to well-written restrictions and boundaries at the BEGINNING of the project. No exceptions. It would take a massive sea-change to actually do this at an agency so entrenched in their processes. :)

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