but I believe the trick is simple aje, Payment tak ikut agreed payment timeline, kitapun jgn proceed with the next level, unless of course ada PO or LOA yg laku kalau bawak pergi bank

But the bottom line is I dont think we have anyone to blame but ourselves for downgrading the whole industry punya rate card.

iwani – do agree with you on educating the client if it happens that we need to accept that job.

xun – do you apply ‘who needs who’ perspective too ?

Hey, your payment scheme is really nice!
before this I do : 50-50 (deposit-completion)

It might motivates me to do work =)

Malaysian Web dev are SOO under appreciated, no thanks to mediocre Web Dev (hey, we all were there right?) that charges less than RM 1k per full site.

I dropped by at this company, it was a house developer. They had Rozel full leather sofa, 50″ plasma on the wall, and expensive-sweet wooden floor. Their lobby alone would probably cost around RM20k-30k. Now, for an office that receives about 20-30 people on business days, that is sure a lot right?
Well, their web receives about 200 visits per day, mind you, minimum.

Bla-bla-bla, guess how much they’re willing to spend for website makeover? RM 1k! Gilaa ka? You think web dev makan kasut? Kasut also expensive these days! We have loans to keep up too.

I definitely had experiences dealing with these sorta clients before and boy, it’s really tiring. The promises, the waiting game, the chasing game.

Once I got my wake-up call, things started to get better. And when faced with these sorta clients again, I’ll decide why is it worthy to proceed. If it isn’t, I’ll politely decline and suggest other alternatives for them

Imho, when you accept a job that is below appropriate price, you’re selfish, as the creative industry is already taken for granted so much! But if you accept that price but at the same time, you educate the client about what the price should be and tell him why you’re tolerating with the price offered, then you’re doing everyone else a big favour

Competition is crazy in this industry, there are all sort of clients, there are all sort of individuals/companies, everyone with their own needs and wants. Everyone trying to survive. There’s never enough space to rant about the shits we face everyday

And when we’re through all the shits and still standing strong, we’re the winners of this game baby!

Now,I need to retweet this good stuff. =D