Today, I removed a few items from my portfolio. A former client requested that they be removed and so I did with no questions asked.

Former? Yeah, I decided to drop the client after learning that I was working at a rate of less than $20 per job on my last jobs for them and that includes web and print work like websites, brochures, posters, etc. I conferred my decision to my wife (she scolded me bad when I told her about the rate) and a few friends and they were right, even with my shortcomings, a rate of less than $20 for a website is hitting the ground bad specially with today’s peso-dollar exchange rate of P39 to a dollar ($20 would only be less than P800). Read the rest of this entry »