mardi 23 décembre 2014

Is it OK to charge for speed, not just time, and how to do it?


Simply put, when you charge the same no matter whether something is finished within 1 month or 1 week, everything will always be "urgent". If the client doesn't need to pay more to get work done sooner rather than later, every client will always prefer to get it sooner.


I find this extremely annoying. I am thinking about charging 3x the price if they want it done by the time it "needs to be finished", as opposed to the time by which I feel like doing it.


Don't get me wrong - I understand that sometimes things really are urgent. If there is a bug in the application that stops a company from being able to do business, sure. But if something is urgent because the management says it has to be done by a certain date, or because they want to put something out in the market as soon as possible, then I feel like it should be (ethically) ok to charge 3x the price (with the hope that they will realize it is perhaps not so urgent).


It seems fair to everyone - if it really is that urgent, they will pay, but in most cases, they will realize that it wasn't as urgent as they initially claimed it to be.


Is there a standard way of handling this problem that will not make the client feel like I'm treating them unfairly?





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