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Good afternoon everyone
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it’s a bit soft to hear you…
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What is a name of a dog on your background? 🙂
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From Benjamin Abbott
To confirm, this session is being recorded and will be available afterwards correct?
From Jacqui McIver
yes
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yes
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yep
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yes
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yes
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yes
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Yes
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yes
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yes
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yes
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yes
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yes
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Yes
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yes
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yes
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yep
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All good
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sounds great!
From James Dinwiddie
Loud and clear
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Kenya
From Joel Robare
thank you! the fee benchmarking resources are really excellent advice!
From Blue Turtle Consulting
The best method for calculating design fees (including fee benchmarking list):
https://blueturtlemc.com/blog/the-best-method-for-calculating-design-fees/
From Lydia Johnson
Can you share a link to that seminar you mention too?
regarding midlevel staff
From Joel Robare
predesign is considered overhead which we have accounted for in our multiplier
From James Dinwiddie
No we do not charge fees for initial advice
From Bill Kumlin
We include the preliminary time in our proposal.  If it doesn’t proceed, oh, well…  If it does, we get paid.  We are also setting up a process to charge for initial discussions.
From Blue Turtle Consulting
How to avoid giving away free design services (including a freemium ideas list):
https://blueturtlemc.com/blog/how-to-avoid-giving-away-free-design-services/
From karen badenoch
Yes if at client premises….but then we have done a blue turtle course 🙂
From Bill Kumlin
We try to avoid giving them any design time.
From Chris Robinson
we’ve learnt not to give free advice
From Bill Austin
we give 1 hour +/- of free time for an initial mtg, then charge after that
From Sejal Patel
We would lose jobs if we down give initial free services bc others will do it
From Flavio Bernardo
We usually give a phone advice, but an office meeting is usually charged as also the site visit, and then if the contract goes ahead we add those meetings will go into the overall quote
From Michael Geraghty
I only charge new clients for the initial project meeting, but not repeat clients.
From johanna seldes
We also give phone discussion and then  charge an initial site meeting fee and included into the final fee bid.
From David Bishop
David Bishop (Kingston upon Thames – 64 years in practice) In my experience clients do not like open ended fees. The preference is a fixed fee, unless the project is outrageously over initial cost.
From Andrew Lightfoot
Q. Is it considered acceptable to request an element of payment or deposit upfront?
From karen badenoch
yes if unknown client – but we have done a blue turtle course 🙂
or…if a known slow paying client
From johanna seldes
I learned from your course 🙂 – I do tend to bring or show examples ; client notebooks, drawings, design plan ect. So they can understand what each line item means in a hard copy.  (Tampa Fl)
From David Bishop
David Bishop. Loyalty is, regrettably a quality which seems not to carry the cache it used. Loyal clients are a precious resource.
From Bill Kumlin
Thanks, guys…  Enlightening as usual.  Got to go now but look forward to your next Q&A!
From Blue Turtle Consulting
Fee Proposal Workshop:
https://blueturtlemc.com/feeproposalworkshop/
From gail diehl
thank you!
From Monika Laudencka-Sobik
Thank you very much – great session!
From Claire Tull
Thank you, that was great.
From johanna seldes
I can highly recommend the course.  Thank  you !!
From David Bishop
David Bishop. Please explain how what an architect has to offer compared to a draftsman or building technologist. It takes 7 years to become a registered architect in the UK. What qualification would 7 years study provide in any other endeavour. A PhD?
From Blue Turtle Consulting
Small Practice Group: https://calendly.com/blueturtleconsulting/small-practice-fee-proposal-support-network
From Karen Pickering
How small is a small practice?
From Blue Turtle Consulting
emily@blueturtlemc.com
From Gordon Kent
thanks very much. Really informative!
From Emily Watson
Many thanks for the interesting discussion!
From Emanuele Falsanisi
thank you!
From Ali Al-Said
Thank you guys
From Rachel Luckett
thanks really useful
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Thank you! Very informative!
From David Coles
Thank you
From Helen Gaffney-Berkeley
Thank you, very informative session.
From Rebekah Stott
Thank you, really easy to listen to and understand. Cheers.
From eduardo hoyos
thank you so much
From Hunter Margolf
Thank you
From Athanasios Varnavas
Thank you – very useful.
From Tim Evans
Thanks very much
From Kirsty Raine
Thanks – this was really useful!
From Benjamin Abbott
Thanks – very helpful