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[Kristina Anderson]

Keith -- I see where you are going with this, I don't know much we want 
to go into rates on this public board ... but if I am underbilling I 
would like to know about it.

PS I think I dropped Econ 101 in Summer 1982 ...?  OOOPS!

(Taking initiative to solve my OWN problems!!) :)

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Kristina Anderson
> <ka at kacomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
> >  rates.  There is a reason I get 90% of the projects I bid on.  If I
> >  asked for $100 an hour, that would be great, but $100 an hour for 0
> >  hours is, well....zero dollars.
> 
> I used to get 85%+ of the projects I was pitching... and working 60+
> hour weeks for those projects.  Then I talked with a few others and
> found out that I was charging less then half than I should have been.
> I steadily increased my rates over time and still get about 50-60% of
> the projects that I pitch.  But the dollars work out even better than
> before.
> 
> If you go too high, yes, you will win 0% of the projects... but this
> is an optimization problem from Econ 101:
> 
> Qty Sold * Price = Revenue
> 
> kc
> 
> -- 
> D. Keith Casey Jr.
> CEO, CaseySoftware, LLC
> http://CaseySoftware.com
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