lisaevenson - 4:47 pm on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

Yes, I completely agree with you. Actually, the designer has 14 years herself, I am the writing half charging $45 per hour. We seem to do okay sharing reciprocal clients, as many businesses need both. A greater share of their pocketbook type situation.

The issue is, WHERE do we find these larger clients? We are certainly eating a lot of spaghetti and make, seriously, 1k a month if we're lucky, barely covering our expenses. So, its difficult to market ourselves on such a low revenue, let alone build a larger client base.

We've used free, HTML email methods (highly becoming the greatest evil on the net), wasteful postcard mailings with minimal to no response ratio, and elance to build business. As everyone knows, competing on elance can be likened to living in a third-world country.

Any advice on getting into the right market is highly appreciated. Please do stickey me with your stat sources. I'd love to read it all. I mean, I do know art is doomed to poverty. But, I'd like to think we're just paying our dues and will skyrocket one day - soon?

We were charging hourly, $75 per hour, and lost $1,600 from a client who insisted his custom, flash web design could NOT have taken 8 hours. And, if it had, thats a sure sign we are completely incompetent and inexperienced. I felt flat package rates would alleviate this type of problem.

Where do I find the companies with money?

Lisa