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Re: Researcher vs writing rates

Subject: Re: Researcher vs writing rates
From: Annamaria Profit <inteltek2 -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:13:34 -0400


John,
That's interesting. I usually spread current operating costs across clients, but what I meant by "online access" was the cost of accessing online databases, like DIALOG, Lexis/Nexis, Profound, public information vendor databases, etc. For those databases and others like them, I would charge a total cost, which includes a planning fee, an online search fee, and an analysis fee, as out of pocket costs, with % markup on the direct online search fees. Most agencies I've worked for added a 15% markup to all out-of-pocket costs to clients, so I follow suit. Writing has almost no overhead costs, but researching requires several other adjunct expenditures, so the fee for researching an issue is generally higher than my writer's fee.

At 10:11 PM 4/26/02 -0600, John Fleming wrote:

At first, she was leaning away from claiming Internet access, until I
pointed out how much I use e-mail as a contractor--even e-mailing most
of my invoices.

I think, if you can make a business case for Internet access costs to
your client, why not charge for them?

Annamaria Profit
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