Are you kidding me?
Emily, you give everyone hell for not charging enough for their
photography work then undersell when it comes to doing some training.
$125, $60 per hour is NOTHING for the person who NEEDS/WANTS to know
what you have to teach them.
I teach, out of my home, a very intro level photography class a
couple times a year because I had friends approach me at morning
coffee wanting to know how to use their digital point and shoot
cameras, how to set them up and get familiar with all the controls.
It's a three hour course with handouts and hands-on time then we meet
again a week later so they can show me some of their 'assignment'
prints and we can go over any rough spots. I charge $250 per person
with a max of 5 people and the class sells out every time I offer it.
The only advertising I do for it is a little 4x6 card at my coffee shop.
The prioress in charge of a convent an hour or so from town heard
about my class and asked me to come teach it to 10 women on her staff
who are responsible for photographing for their publications and
their web site. I was paid over $2000 for a day of my time.
More than once I've thought of giving up shooting in favor of
training one-on-one. I used to work for a company who sent me all
over KC and surrounding areas to teach Word, Pagemaker, Photoshop,
Illustrator and Powerpoint and I loved it. I taught in corporate
environments and in schools. My biggest assignment was doing the
assessment and training for employees at Josten's Yearbook Company
when they went from manual layouts to completely digital ones. It was
a BLAST. I had people in that class who had never had their hands on
a mouse and by the time I was finished with them they were doing
layouts in their sleep. It was delightful.
I say go for the $60.00. Or more.
Lea
On Jul 25, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
Actually,Marilyn, I sold my old Mac to a friend and I've been
teaching her how to use it and Photoshop. At first it was just so
she could get over PC-itis, but it's grown like topsy and now it's
no longer "doing a favor for a friend". Yesterday we talked about
how much she should start paying me.
So today I did some calling around, posing as a moderately
knowledgible Mac user who needed some one-on-one with someone who
knew html and frames.
$125/hr from one place for one-on-one home call.
$60/hr from another.
Many simply don't do that at all.
How do people learn, fer crissakes, if they have to travel to
Boston, 75 miles away, to take a 3-hr $50 workshop? Or to
Providence every Wednesday evening for an entire summer, for $750,
for a Dreamweaver adult ed class?
It seems like every adult ed program has a class or two in Word and
Quickbooks, but what about the people like me or like my friend,
who don't need yet another intro to Word, who can perfectly well
figure out Quickbooks for themselves but want to make a real web
site, not something from canned templates? Without that workshop
in Boston I'd still be shooting jpegs and doing all my adjustments
in Photoshop.
Bah! $125/hr! Seems outrageous. Wouldn't hurt my checking
account, but still.
Even $60 I'm having trouble swallowing. But it makes me feel
better about wanting $45.
But I have to pay $60 for the html help, and I'm hardly an amateur
with Photoshop. Maybe I should just grit my teeth and go for the $60.
Bah.
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