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[Tom Dell'Aringa]

--- Jay Blanchard <jay.blanchard at niicommunications.com> wrote:

> Not to mention the potential client him/her/self. "We have a very
> limited budget, can you do it for $5 an hour?" Some dev's accept
> the work for fear of starvation all the while thinking "I'll make 
> it up on the next contract or when the economy gets better." The 
> truth is that
> the work has become undervalued and it started when potential
> customers
> started thinking, "Hey, that Internet boom is over, so we can get
> work done cheaply now." 

Agreed, and there's a saying in consulting: Once you lower your
price, its almost impossible to raise it. Once you work for a guy at
$5/hr, he will never want to contract you out at more, and he will
probably try to get you at less. 

You need to sell the value in your work, so make sure you SEE the
value in your work. Don't sell yourself as a two-bit street corner
huckster, because you'll get treated that way :)

Tom

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