Getting Started (part 1)

(note: this message used to be in our about section, but it’s probably better here.)

We’d like to explain how we go about pricing our projects and offer suggestions for getting the most out of your budget.

Pricing our work can be a challenge, because every project is different. We always quote the fairest price we can, based on the probable hours ENTERMEDIA will spend working directly on your project. We only charge for our time. You get all our ideas and collaborative synergy free, essentially. With the custom nature of the work we do, it’s best to keep it simple like that.

In our experience, focusing on goal accomplishment rather than running down a list of technical requirements is a better way to build an action plan around your budget. It allows all parties to explore creative approaches within this collaborative process to balance and accommodate your budget while still delivering the goods.

We make every effort to anticipate and inform you of the potential ‘gotchas’ in your project that might threaten to waste your time or money. Likewise, we brainstorm and recommend options for satisfying an objective through simpler means. If we can do more with less somewhere, resulting in a smaller bill for you, we will. If the original project scope has changed such that we will exceed our original time estimate, we’ll make that clear. For our part, we just want to be as cost-efficient a business as we can be, and keep our clients happy.

Finally, there is more than one way to put a dollar amount on the work we do. We design and develop towards long term value and scalability. How do you put a number on that? In the end, how much an accomplished goal is worth is relative to how completely it was accomplished and whether it was a worthy goal in the first place. We do know the prices we charge are extremely competitive compared to what other firms of our skill level and professionalism would insist on.

Bottom line: we build you the kind of assets that justify their labor cost many times over.

Tags: web design, web development