Comment on business is business
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks agoI mean she’s got a point. I used to do web design and the number of people who reckoned that it should cost the equivalent of $40 was ridiculous. I’d required at least 10 times that just as compensation from having to work with shopify.
… did you market yourself as a stuck up prick who can’t budget well?
Or did you maybe save that for some stage of contract negotiations?
There are ways to dance the dance; hers seems to be the equivalent of loudly complain that no one is picking her to dance because no one can afford her.
Just not a good strategy.
Well I certainly found it was a good idea to not keep the customer in the dark about my prices. If I’m going to be expensive I might as well tell them outright, it’s not like I’m going to get more customers if I led them on.
Price transparency != Marketing strategy.
ch00f@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One of the main reasons I got into hardware is because there’s an inherent bias that digital things have no intrinsic value.
Like, you might expect a calculator app to be free, but nobody expects a calculator to be free.
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
When doing websites. I always told people upfront, you can do it cheap, fast, or good. Pick two because all three doesn’t exist.
TehWorld@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve stopped asking people this. They ALWAYS pick cheap and good because fast is an unknown variable to them.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well technically you can have all three be met at the same time.
The omly question you have to ask yourself is ‘Are you as happy of the idea of slavery as most other capitalists are?’
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
as long as it’s at least an ocean away it fine™