Hi,
I've been a freelancer on the side for a few years working mostly with local businesses and friends on small projects like logo design and the like. I've never done anything huge before that required more than a few days worth of work. Recently I met someone in a social setting that had a lot of professional connections. He said he'd seen and liked my work and happened to represent a company in the manufacturing sector. He's asked me if I'd be interested in creating a product manual for his company along with some marketing materials for potential clients. We've kept in touch pretty regularly and it's looking to be a sure thing once they compile documentation necessary to build the manual. The nature of the product is highly technical and I'm expecting this document to be around 50-100 pages of technical drawings, graphs and that kind of thing plus whatever they need for marketing materials.
I know I have the ability to design the manual but I have no idea what to charge. My wife works in marketing for a big corporation and she says they pay their out-of-house designers $20k-$30k on contract for things like that but I'm by no means a team of 20 guys working for a company as recognizable as hers and I don't know that I warrant that kind of pay. In the past I've charged clients $15 an hour for my work based on how long I figured the project would take but I've never taken on something this large. I feel way out of my depth.
So r/design...what would you guys charge or how would you approach this? Thanks in advance for any help.
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Submitted October 27, 2018 at 03:05PM by fifthmanstanding https://ift.tt/2PXMqvN
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