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  • youngdesigner0

    Give them a small discount (25-50%). They are a friend, and you will sound like a dick saying no discount for such a small job.

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    • 50% is a small discount?omahadesigns
    • We give discounts to client's friend's now? How about their family? Bigger or similar discount?ETM
    • How about their old school teachers and their baristas too? MAybe only 10% there?ETM
    • Fuck me.ETM
    • Are so many here eager to race to the bottom or value their time so little?ETM
    • Right because REAL business would never do that right...it's not like a business ever offered a sale or promotion in order to ultimately make more money.youngdesigner
    • hahah, stupid businessmen! You should be charging your "maximum rate" at all times.youngdesigner
    • I think you have clearly showed your inexperience and my company does quite well not taking shit jobs,ETM
    • You also don't understand the difference between service and product based businesses.ETM
    • However, your username says it all.ETM
    • ??? So service based business never offers a discount to attract customers?youngdesigner
    • A client's friend resizing photos is not new business. Best learn how to track leads, my friend.ETM
    • And no, I don't discount. I've been running my company for 13 years and discounting provides conflicting messages to clients.ETM
    • Our time is not a warehouse full of detergent that has to be moved quickly.ETM
    • And employees don't take less pay one week because you did a discount. You lose profit instead.ETM
    • Apparently in those 13 years you never learned about the idea of offering a discountyoungdesigner
    • in order to ultimately make more money. A rather basic business conceptyoungdesigner
    • Why discount if I am busy. Time is finite. If that is your business plan, best of luck. To each their own.ETM
    • Adding business also has costs. Everything must be in balance. If you had an office, employees etc. you'd better understand. Some day.ETM
    • youngdesigner, you're exposing your lack of business know-how. You're just simply wrong.iCanHazQBN
    • Even suggesting that 25%-50% off is a "small" discount is ridiculous.iCanHazQBN
    • It's fine. He's hopefully just young and eager. He'll learn in time. We all did.ETM
    • WAIT you have...an...office??
      http://paindoesnthur…      youngdesigner
    • SORRY I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I SAIDyoungdesigner
    • iCanHaz, you are making it sound like there are absolute rules in business. There are notyoungdesigner
    • I'm not saying there are absolute rules. I'm saying you don't know how to run a business.iCanHazQBN
    • And you do? Where is your office??youngdesigner
    • Sorry... I just can't argue anymore with a highschooler about this.iCanHazQBN
    • You're even questioning not charging for Admin time...iCanHazQBN
    • ...those are amateur habits that someone still in school might do.iCanHazQBN
    • You obviously haven't been in business long enough to get screwed over yet.iCanHazQBN
    • You don't even have an office, do you?youngdesigner
    • You have to protect yourself. Your time is valuable. Do not undercut yourself, ever.iCanHazQBN
    • I don't have a physical office. I'm set up so that I can work from anywhere in the world. And I do.iCanHazQBN
    • And even your notion that a one-person entity might not be a "business" is naive.iCanHazQBN
    • And even your criteria of having to have "an office" in order to be legitimate is juvenile...iCanHazQBN
    • What is an office these days? Most people on the edge of technology are 100% mobile and not confined to an office.iCanHazQBN
    • I have to go. Have a good weekend!iCanHazQBN
    • You are on the edge of technology?youngdesigner
    • You have to go? I thought you were 100% mobile??youngdesigner
    • hahaHijoDMaite
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