It saddens me that we are often thought of as the most “expensive” studio when local clients send out an RFQ or an RFP. The funny thing is, it couldn’t be farther from the truth. That’s the thing with the typical “Ottawa” client —and yes, there is such a thing. I’m sure they exist in any city—but they seem to litter our local landscape, like discarded rubbish on the sidewalks.
Charlatans and rogues have hijacked our industry—those masquerading as qualified designers—nothing more than a recent college grad armed with a cracked Windows copy of Flash and Dreamweaver—that they lifted from a torrent.
These rogues will build your latest web venture, fully-integrated into Wordpress, for the bargain-basement price of $900. What a fucking deal—how could you pass that up? I’m done with even caring about these vultures and clowns—this will be my final rant about them. We end-up working with clients that have vision, understanding, and a respect for our craft (as we do with theirs). I’m sorry, but I don’t want to code your interior design business site for $500 (I’ve got 2 cats I’d rather pet instead, or sleep to catch-up on).
I’ll leave it at this: to those seeking the services of a design professional, go ahead, choose that lowest price.
Have a great time building your web presence twice.
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When I had my own business and I was doing work for Amgen and WaMu, when confronted with price issues or if I knew I was going to be the highest bid… I would tell the potential client to go to W3C and use their “HTML Validator” to check my competitions URLs for errors and to do the same for my sites. (It was self defense, okay.)
The client would would freak out if they were not tech oriented after seeing error after error and I would play the “my code is W3C compliant and guaranteed to always work card” and your job will be safe withme, but will it be safe with them?
That is the only thing these “rogues” or “wankers” can’t compete with on a demonstrable level is Being so thorough that a mystic organization called W3C likes your code better. The client feels safe and it worked for me.
Thx for the comment—it’s an interesting point you bring up. I’m glad this brief post resonated w/ you.