Too much on the work plate
Yesterday a neighbor waved me over and wanted to know if I’m still designing websites. I snorted and gestured to the little demon spawn sitting in her carseat. Meaning, NO, I think it’s safe to say I’m not. He then asked if I might be available to work on a website for his new house-flipping business. I would have said no right then and there if he didn’t throw in “so, you’d charge, around $1000 to $2000, right?”.
I suppose I should have controlled myself a bit. I left things up in the air, but with an admitted hint of promise. Probably a bad move on my part, I know. Here I am, trying to get all of my income streams going completely hands-free, and I almost commit myself to a huge chunk of web design. (My neighbor, you see, is a picky guy, and I can sense all of the re-do’s and alters I’ll have to make.) Maybe if I didn’t have such a needy 3 month old….
I’m thinking of outsourcing the web design project to a fellow designer, just so that it gets done in a reasonable amount of time. If not the entire project, at least a good portion of it. Outsourcing happens a lot in the field of web design, and although I’ve completed just about all of my own projects myself, I think now is a good time to think it over. I can look for someone who can do the job for around $600 or $700, charge my neighbor $1000, and keep the difference for weekly site maintenence fees, hosting fees, and small tweaks that he will undoubtedly want done.
Speaking of outsourcing, I’ve also managed to get a few of my projects worked on by ghostwriters. Mainly the projects that I feel I’d never get to myself. So, hopefully, by the end of October, I’ll have a few more completed projects. Now I can concentrate on getting my new passive business plan outlined on paper (or here on the blog) and get it into action. I’ve been farting around this idea for all of 2007. I really gotta get it done already.
