Ballpark charge for a 4 page brochure?

[Tony B]

Hi all, I'm doing a 11 x 17 (4 page) brochure for a water softening company. I took all the product shots and post editing and was wondering how much does this type of job get? I can get the thing printed for around $480 per thousand. I was thinking of charging around $980.00, giving me $400 out of it, but I don't want to short change myself.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[defjoe]

howw many hours would you say you put into it?

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[Tony B]

I'm not done with it yet, but ncluding picture editing (cropping out the bg's) I'd say I have around 3 hours into it, and an about an hour onsite taking product pics.

I could go by the hour on this (around $65-75/hour) but was wondering if anyone had a ballpark. There arn't many products, maybe 15 or so.

[D-Frag]

4 pages huh, i would say your safe with 400-500 (for design alone) on top of that I usually take a 10% chunk of the total printing cost to compensate for anything that goes wrong...and believe me, shit goes wrong. Seeing as how you shot your own photos I would say add on another 100 to that, depending on how many shots you took, this is all relative to how I would bid out a job mind you. thats my 2 cents, I know I wouldn't have done it for cheaper then that and im pretty competitive with the job market in my city.

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Post Edited (D-Frag) : 9/24/2004 4:38:48 AM GMT

[defjoe]

I would estimate the hours and base it on that (including what D-frag said about the 10% printing)

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[Tony B]

Thanks guys, that was what I was thinking. I see I'm just about where I need to be. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't giving anything away being this was my first brochure.

The printing is $425.00, I'm gonna charge $500.00 + 10% on the print, so that takes me to 950.00 so I'll charge $982.46 just to be exact /emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif



Thanks