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Daniel Morgan wrote:
> pheonix1t wrote: >
> What are you smoking? $95/hr. for MS Access? Perhaps I should rephrase > my question. What were they smoking? And where can I get some for my > clients? If you can get half of that in Seattle for MS Access you should > laugh all the way to the bank. > > The other rates you quote are possible but without a clue as to your > skills and experience I wouldn't pay you minimum wage. What do you bring > to the table?
my friend who works with me: princeton graduate (originally law, but changed to Comp. Science), 20 years of experience, same skill-set as me...but add ibm db2, java, heavy development experience with windows and unix (vb, asp, java, .net, cold-fusion). Also cisco IOS. He's what I aspire to!
so....I have to lower the rates for access, and probably sql server.
oracle can also be lowered a bit but still stick around 100? Around
houston a lot of the "consultant" shops charge 125 for work that doesn't
include programming (just technical work - cisco, windows, etc)! I do
it for 75 and we've been pretty busy. (but we are new...5 years in
business, 2 in houston, 5 in nyc) I just want to get a good idea for
making long term "package" deals/maintenance contracts for data centers.
We've built up a very good client base for references....now I want to
go higher up the scale. We want to start marketing to companies that
have good sized data centers.
fyi, any web development work is passed off to a friend's consulting
company that specializes in this stuff....based in nyc, they have a team
of 6.
Also, what is good way to get sales lists/leads for companies with
enterprise class databases? I've been going to chambers of commerce and
BNI meetings....this has brought in work so far, but it's very time
consuming to get business from a chamber of commerce membership. Just
wondering if there is a quicker way....
thank you!!
Oskar
> Received on Sun Sep 14 2003 - 19:13:46 CDT