Feydakin - 2:27 pm on Sep 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

My experience has been exactly the opposite.. Your clients will value your time based on what they pay you.. If you give it away they will treat you 'cheap'.. I lost a huge client 4 or 5 years ago because I gave them too much for free.. When they went to 'upgrade' they went with a larger firm that charged them nearly double what I quoted them.. Their reason was that they wanted to step up to a more 'business oriented' provider..

This was after their business increased some 700% with the software we wrote for them.. Come to think of it, I really didn't mind loosing them either, too many calls at midnight with 'issues'..