Pricing

The minimum fee is £35 – this might involve say 2–3 pages of text.  I am prepared to take on projects of any size, but will have to have a good idea of what is involved in respect of the larger ones – thus a sample of the work will need to be appraised first before an exact quote or estimate in terms of costing and timing can be arrived at.

I prefer to charge by the hour but a page or word rate or a pre-agreed fixed-fee lump sum is possible.  (The CIEP has minimum recommendations with regard to hourly rates but I am prepared wherever possible to fit in with the client's budgetary constraints.)

Every job is priced individually; estimates are sometimes provided rather than exact quotes as it is not always possible to judge the time-expenditure requirement of a medium-to-large project in advance.  For example, the time spent on a project might increase owing to research and fact-checking, phone calls, and writing and reading emails.

CLIENT PAYMENTS

• Settlement of invoices by cheque or bank transfer within 28 days

• Staging of payments for long-term projects can be arranged.