{"id":2675,"date":"2017-07-25T06:33:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T11:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2017-08-01T11:22:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T16:22:04","slug":"are-you-always-confident-about-the-fees-you-charge-for-your-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/are-you-always-confident-about-the-fees-you-charge-for-your-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you always confident about the fees you charge for your work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At some point, regardless of whether you work in an organisation or for yourself, there is the dilemma of trying to figure out how much to charge for your services. Charge too high and you might price yourself out of the market and lose the business. Charge too low, and you are leaving money on the table and potentially painting yourself into a corner, from which it can be difficult to recover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Depending on your field or specialty, your fellow consultants, contractors and service providers might not be as forthcoming with such information as you might have hoped. However, even if you figured out how much to charge, it is still always beneficial to be able to consider it within the context of what your peers might be charging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, for those of you who work in the Caribbean region, it is not only a challenge to get sense of what professional fee rates might obtain in an individual country, but also across the region. In light of the insulation and isolation consultants, contractors and service providers are likely to feel from time to time, we have created a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ictpulse.polldaddy.com\/s\/project-calls-consultant-contractor-fee-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Survey of Consulting, Contracting and Services Provision Fees Charged in the Caribbean<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which we ask that you complete.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/ictpulse.polldaddy.com\/s\/project-calls-consultant-contractor-fee-survey?iframe=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\"><a href=\"\/\/ictpulse.polldaddy.com\/s\/project-calls-consultant-contractor-fee-survey\">View Survey<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The survey consists of 16 questions, and could be completed in less than ten (10) minutes<\/strong>. Please note that we do not ask for any personally identifiable information; hence we ask that you be as honest as possible in your responses. Ultimately, we are trying to get \u2013 <strong><em>and eventually share with you<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 as accurate a picture as possible of the professional fees being charged for local, regional and internationally-funded projects. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, we also ask that you <a href=\"http:\/\/ictpulse.polldaddy.com\/s\/project-calls-consultant-contractor-fee-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">share this survey<\/a> with your fellow consultants, contractors and service providers to help us get as wide a sample as possible, and thus more authoritative results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We look forward to your support!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cybrgrl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cybrgrl<\/a>, flickr)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point, regardless of whether you work in an organisation or for yourself, there is the dilemma of trying to figure out how much to charge for your services&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[106],"tags":[108,110,109,111,107],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surveys","tag-consulting","tag-contracting","tag-fees","tag-service-provision","tag-surveys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Invoices-cybrgrl.-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-H9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10578,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/are-you-always-confident-about-the-fees-you-charge-for-your-work-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2675,"position":0},"title":"Are you always confident about the fees you charge for your work?","author":"Michele Marius","date":"October 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"What to charge for your work is a frequent point of hesitation for many consultants, contractors and service providers. 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