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A Beginning Entrepreneur’s Guide To Pricing Professional Services

I have long promised to blog on how best for a self-employed person to price his services.
Until now, I have basically said that you should charge as much as you feel is appropriate, given the amount of work you need to invest and the ability of your customer to pay. That, I know, comes [...]

More Bad Business: Dealing With Contractors And Copyright

Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers:
To those of you who design websites, is this ethical?
I think my web designer may own the rights to my website. She’s got her company name at the bottom of all my pages, and made a comment once about me being stuck with her. Is that ethical? Is that common? What [...]

The Wrong Way Of Looking At Client Relationships: An Example Examined And Discussed

Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers:

My client wants an email template that uses a CMS so they can make their own updates.How much should I charge?
I’m just wondering what the going rate is for a CMS email template since I’ve never done one before and after I hand it over to the client they won’t need [...]

The Three Keys To Successful Self-Employment In Programming And Consulting: Introduction

Some of the more common questions in the Computers & Internet | Programming and Design category on Yahoo! Answers center on the business side:

What programming languages should I learn?
What do I need to know to start my own business?
Am I too old to change careers / Is the market saturated with my type of programming?
How [...]