amazingkevin Posted September 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Kevin hang tough. Things are starting to come together. Everything takes time. Been there and done that. Actually still do. It will all come together. After doing photo retouch work from a Flea Market booth (after my commercial customer business was drying up with the bad economy), I quickly learned that any custom work that is done for the general public required that you get at least 60% of the money "up front", because many of them will either forget that they ordered it, won't have the money when it's ready, or have changed their minds and don't want it anymore, but won't come back and tell you. At least, if you get the 60% up front and have priced the job correctly, you have roughly covered the materials costs and your labor costs, but you haven't made a profit. When they didn't come back for their work, I just used their photos as advertising by printing a "before" to display with the "after" and wrote it off as a "break even". I made sure that I never "lost money" doing work for anyone. No money in advance = no work, and I looked for the next paying customer. Charley Makes sense Charley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted September 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Kevin hang tough. Things are starting to come together. Everything takes time. Been there and done that. Actually still do. It will all come together. After doing photo retouch work from a Flea Market booth (after my commercial customer business was drying up with the bad economy), I quickly learned that any custom work that is done for the general public required that you get at least 60% of the money "up front", because many of them will either forget that they ordered it, won't have the money when it's ready, or have changed their minds and don't want it anymore, but won't come back and tell you. At least, if you get the 60% up front and have priced the job correctly, you have roughly covered the materials costs and your labor costs, but you haven't made a profit. When they didn't come back for their work, I just used their photos as advertising by printing a "before" to display with the "after" and wrote it off as a "break even". I made sure that I never "lost money" doing work for anyone. No money in advance = no work, and I looked for the next paying customer. Charley Makes sense Charley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted September 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 I always though tax was on an item. Not on labor or rent. I've no idea whats what any more ,Thanks for looking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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