Hotchkiss Consulting

Hey everyone– this weekend, Becky, my beautiful fiancee and the better half of Hotchkiss Consulting, pulled off a first.  She’s been a great designer, but, for the first time, she designed, coded, and launched a site 100% on her own.  You can check it out at MommyAndMeDanceOfDurango.com.  I am so proud of how quickly she learned everything, and look forward to the many sites she will be producing in the future!

To celebrate, we’re offering a new product, the new business branding package.  For only $1,000, as a new business you will receive:

- A custom vectorized logo and color scheme for your business

- 250 Full Color business cards

- 200 Full Color tri-fold brochures

- A 3-page basic website advertising your business

This is a great package for new businesses to get started.  In addition, we can also design and build advanced web sites, ecommerce solutions, print ads, or anything else you can think of to market your business.  If you can dream it, we can help you make it reality, because we know that Anything Is Possible.

So, this morning I was reading an article by Eric Nagel (via Steve Poland) about how to estimate the cost of a consulting gig for a client.  Mr. Nagel recommends figuring out about how much time you think it will take, then doubling it and providing that as a quote.  I used to do that, but fell out of favor of it because I think you’re prone to scare away clients by giving them quotes that, for the most part, are considerably larger than the final bill.

I, instead, use a 3-number quote, where I quote the minimum time it will take (no way I’m getting it done faster than this), the maximum time it will take (no way it will take longer than this, and even if it does, I won’t bill you for more than this), and then the projected time (I usually end up coming in within 10% of this number) (more…)