A association has not long ago asked me to cruise aiding them with creation selling brochures as well as fliers for their investment firm. I am by no equates to the veteran though am you do this upon the side. I customarily furnish peculiarity element for non-profits though this is the initial time I have been asked to be the expert for profit. How most do consultants customarily charge? As the novice, what would be reasonable? Looking for a little input. Thanks!!
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Some freelance designers can charge as little as $30/ hr or $45/ hr to design the collateral pieces. Then mark up the printed production costs by 20% (which is an ad agency standard). Since you will be invoicing them for time you can decide how much you want to charge depending on your comfort level and the time you think that it would take you to do the job. You can also give them an estimate prior to work to see where they are at with the cost for your time. If you think that it will be quick, then charge them more so that it would be worth the time for you to do the job. If you are building the relationship and there is a possibility of more jobs coming to you, then charge them less on time. If you are handling all the print production including the printers invoices, then you can choose how you want to mark it up since you will be invoicing the client for the entire job. If you do go this route, I would recommend that you bill the client ahead of time since you will know from the printer what the quote is initially so that it can go through their chain of command and you will have a check in a timely manner so that when the printer invoices you, you will already have the money from the client to pay for the job.
Good luck!