Hot take: charging by the page is a trap for writers like me

I used to charge $50 per page for web copy, and I thought I was being smart about it. Then last year, I had a client who wanted 20 pages of short, punchy homepage sections that took way less time than a 10-page deep-dive blog project at the same rate. I switched to a flat project fee based on estimated hours after that, and now I make about 30% more for the same work. It's not perfect, but it stopped me from getting burned on quick-turn stuff. Has anyone else dropped per-unit pricing for something else and seen a real difference?

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ross.kim5d ago

@faith27 kind of has a point about things not always going as predicted. Charging by the page actually protected me from clients who wanted endless revisions and scope creep since they knew each change cost them.

abby_fisher10d ago

Honestly, is this really that deep?

faith2710d ago

Thirty years ago people said the same thing about the Y2K bug and look how that turned out.