Hi all,
I read your thread with interest, and thought maybe I'd add my own (personal) comments.
At one time I stopped doing lower budget work, but since I have found that brochure sites can be done well for less than 1000 euros, and can be good business for the developer.
My experience:
Virtualy all enquiries from people looking for brochure type sites are a waste of time. Normaly the company looking for that type of budget site is going to be the least well equiped to provide you with content material or project participation. They are going to be harder work than the decent contracts and a lot less money... so leave them alone.
However, I do get the odd brochure enquiry which is worth following up. I personaly wouldn't meet with the client on that sort of budget & I certainly wouldn't drive to them.
There are small/startup companies that just wants to get a few pages online, get their domain & email etc. and the're going to be well pleased with what you can do for them in a few hours.
I don't have a problem with it. These people do come along, and if it suits me it can also be good business. I occasionaly turn out a brochure site in 8 - 16 hours work, and would charge 500 - 800 + hosting(94) + domain ... that seems okay to me.
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