LindaBabe
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 20, 1999
Do you have any idea what you really expend to do an album?? Is your time worth anything? I think Mouse Memories prices are very VERY realistic.
I calculated a 12 & 12 good quality album with page protectors, and paper, stickers, embellishments costs about $110 - 130 in materials at retail.
By the time you spend time talking with the customer about what they want, plan, shop, organize your pages, do any computer printing of titles, and make the pages, you have an expenditure of at least 2 hours per side - for a 20 leaf album that is 40 sides. You are an artist - are you really going to create for less than minimum wage? Not me, Babes!
If it's a business - run it like a business - be REALISTIC with your charges and don't give your labor away. Get a substantial deposit in advance. If it's NOT a business, don't do it - then you won't be getting ulcers from seething because you weren't adequately compensated - and your own albums will be getting done.
My two cents. I've been there.
I calculated a 12 & 12 good quality album with page protectors, and paper, stickers, embellishments costs about $110 - 130 in materials at retail.
By the time you spend time talking with the customer about what they want, plan, shop, organize your pages, do any computer printing of titles, and make the pages, you have an expenditure of at least 2 hours per side - for a 20 leaf album that is 40 sides. You are an artist - are you really going to create for less than minimum wage? Not me, Babes!
If it's a business - run it like a business - be REALISTIC with your charges and don't give your labor away. Get a substantial deposit in advance. If it's NOT a business, don't do it - then you won't be getting ulcers from seething because you weren't adequately compensated - and your own albums will be getting done.
My two cents. I've been there.