{"id":109,"date":"2008-09-25T02:58:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T09:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/credible-content.com\/content\/should-i-be-charging-by-hour-by-word-or-by-page-for-copywriting\/"},"modified":"2008-09-25T02:58:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T09:58:25","slug":"should-i-be-charging-by-hour-by-word-or-by-page-for-copywriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/should-i-be-charging-by-hour-by-word-or-by-page-for-copywriting\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I be charging by hour, by word or by page, for copywriting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the number of quarries increases many clients ask me how I charge.  Till now I have been charging by pages and those pages contain particular number of words.  Beyond that word limit I charge extra for every extra bracket of hundred words.  Recently I charged by hour  and grossly miscalculated the number of hours required to accomplish the task.  I told my client that I could finish the document in five hours whereas it took me more than 15 hours.  That sucked big-time. <\/p>\n

I charge differently for different content requirements but I mostly charge per page (assuming a page contains between 300 and 400 words<\/em>).  Many people on various freelancing blogs suggest that one should charge by hours because this way you can charge a fixed rate no matter what the client wants you to do.  For me it doesn\u2019t work because I want to provide a flexible quote to my clients.  Besides sometimes I also outsource my work and I am never sure how much time the writer is going to take.  It is better to pay him or her a fixed amount for a document of a particular size. <\/p>\n

Anyway I am still in the process of deciding how I should charge but for the time being I am charging by page.  I have been charging like this for more than 3 years now.  Just because I have been charging this way for such a long time doesn\u2019t necessarily make it right but my clients seem to prefer this. The method of payment should be useful both for my clients and myself.  What I mean is I would like to charge in a manner that my clients don\u2019t have to overpay me and I don\u2019t end up undercharging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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