{"id":9,"date":"2005-02-14T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2005\/getting-paid-the-two-methods-of-billing-for-web-design\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:03:09","slug":"getting-paid-the-two-methods-of-billing-for-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2005\/getting-paid-the-two-methods-of-billing-for-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting paid: The two methods of billing for web design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once you and your client have agreed on a price (for your web design work,) it&#8217;s time to get some cash!<\/p>\n<p>Why do you need to get money <strong>before<\/strong> you start the work:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two major reasons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You need some sort of commitment from the client &#8211; nothing guarantees a commitment like cash!<\/li>\n<li>Respect: you need to establish respect for your services. By getting a payment upfront, you are establishing a professional relationship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How much should you ask for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I work with one of two payment structures:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Two equal payments &#8211; 50% up front and 50% when the job is done.<\/li>\n<li>Three equal payments &#8211; 33% up front, 33% on delivery of the first draft and 33% when the job is done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The 2nd option  is much better because  it&#8217;s easy to get the first draft out &#8211; this way you&#8217;ll have 66% of your money relatively quickly.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it can take a long time before the client signs off on the final. Option #2 is especially handy when you have clients who take forever to respond to your questions  causing the project to drag on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>OK, I wasn&#8217;t going to mention it, but there is a 3rd method of getting paid &#8230; and that&#8217;s not getting paid because you didn&#8217;t get a payment up front!<\/p>\n<p>Always get a payment up front!<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you and your client have agreed on a price (for your web design work,) it&#8217;s time to get some cash! Why do you need to get money before you start the work: Two major reasons: You need some sort of commitment from the client &#8211; nothing guarantees a commitment like cash! Respect: you need &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4735,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}