From the course: Ecommerce: Scoping Projects
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Account for overhead
- We've done a lot of planning so far and all of that should be included in the cost of a project. And if you charge for discovery, it should already be paid for. Again, I highly recommend that you charge for this initial phase. A few things to keep in mind when you're scoping projects. Project management. Every project has certain amount of project management. Whether you have a dedicated project manager or not. There's a lot of communication that needs to happen and you should account for it in your estimate. You could be emailing copy back and forth, logos, and product photos too. And there's of course, phone calls and meetings to log as well. I generally found you need an additional 20% of the time you spend on the project dedicated to project management. So if you have a website that takes 40 hours to build, I'd add eight hours of project management on top. That should account for meetings, phone calls, and all communication. Project management doesn't have visible results, so…
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