ggmike - 9:32 pm on Jun 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

Its not so much that I started the job at a discount rate... I quoted a fixed price for the whole project, but she ended up demanding all this extra stuff and I (like an idiot) did most of it - hence why it became a bit of a disaster. Eventually I said thats all I'm going to do, and any extra work will cost XX amount of money per hour.

I really don't know how these people stay in business charging $20 an hour, although I'm going to assume that they charge for phone calls, meetings, and emails (I don't and probably should).

In any case, I think my new plan will be to just avoid these types of clients (I should have seen the warning signs with this one) and also make sure I discuss some type of retainer plan from the very beginning so that they know the maintenance and updates won't be cheap.

I've just reached my 1 year anniversary of freelancing and looking back I can see I've learned so much... to bad I learned it all the hard way. :(
Oh well, at least I love my job ;)