But you haven’t wasted a thing when they choose the lesser-featured options if you save those concepts/code/design bits that client didn’t use for someone else later…

If nothing else, what you learned while creating those other two options will surely play into another project. Just like what you wrote in your Knowledge-Based Pricing post about how little time a similar project will take you the second time around.

That was a good and timely post, by the way. I love your summary…it’s almost a mantra—

“Make your pay rate reflect more on your knowledge and skill, not necessarily your time.”

I guess the only “waste no part” type of thing I do is that when I give a quote to a client I try to give them 3 different choices. The middle choice being what I think they will want. One with a few more features than the middle and one with a few less than the middle. It gives them a sense of empowerment and choice and sometimes they take the full-featured option instead of the medium.

But I guess if they choose the lower option I’m wasting more animal.

Recent blog post from Jeremy Davis: Knowledge-Based Pricing: Kicking it Old Carpenter Style

What a fab combination of talents: writing/photography. That popped up in a novel recently as helpful for magazine writers, since they could provide their own art in the package (and get paid for both roles). And how the editors like having all the work managed at once. If it’s really like that, then it’s very practical. And profitable. And sensible, and a host of other -ables

You encourage me to find a unique combination of my not-so-unique skills. Thanks for that…

ps Enjoyed the heck out of your recent posts this morning…especially Ugly Duckling Blogger! A perfect boost.

@golfsport—Hi and welcome! We’re noticing that with some effort, we’re able to select useful items from our education to apply to our current jobs, whatever the current job happens to be. There’s plenty of hands-on learning, too, but we’re recycling whatever knowledge we can. It’s not the same for you? One thing for sure, without my completed degree I wouldn’t have had many job opportunities. If your education doesn’t play into your work, maybe you can do like Brett and Sterling and integrate hobbies and other interests?

I thought that was pretty interesting too.

(Maybe Sterling & I can do a joint venture, we can have the cagefighters tour the nuclear plants…)

One of my business ideas has been developing in that direction, actually. Interesting how you can meld different concepts that way.

-Brett

Recent blog post from Brett Legree: canada 2, greece 0. a story about running.

Recent blog post from golfsport: 1

Sidenote: Funny that J Hipkin tagged me with information on the older market…50+, which is a match to an idea of yours from last week…