Commercial Skinning

Try to break the time it took to make it and attach an hourly rate to it.

Whether you want to surrender protective right over it is another matter. That would need some legal mumbo jumbo.   

5 grand is low.....Imo.

That is what I was thinking but am not sure what some standard rates are.

I was serious.   

Have you seen my skinning skills?  I have to *pay* folks to use my stuff.

Checks in the mail John!  I swear.

I have similar experience as what you having now. About a year ago a company approached me for my Whitetube WB to be used as part of their commercial product. Still the rate we agree upon are on hourly rate. .. just a few mod here and there like color tone adjustment and their company logo on some of WB components.. So all in all it still depends on how much can both parties agree upon. Not too high because they can just look for other on their list and not too low for it would not be fair for you either..

I hope that help you decide...somehow Good Luck

Hey, you say 5 grand is low, can you break down what the 5 grand covers if a company were to approach you for a similar skinning project. This is an interesting topic.
Just an example, How many hours do you put in a master skin that could be used a corporate desktop skin? Are there any other considerations / extra charges/costs to take into account in this type of a project?

1. How it is to be used ?
2. What is the overall income expected for the use of your work?
3. [this goes with 1&2] What would be the income without the use of your work?

Placing a price on your work for any type of corp./business use has it's ups and downs. Being you need to have them make you an offer. [Which is the best way to find out things?!] Then when they do,you can go over what the offer is worth to you. Having them ask you what you want is the ole-boy routine of getting you to do what they want easily. [Cheap!] Make sure you get all the facts in writing and have the offer made the same way - "This is what they are offering you!" not what you want to figure you are worth. But what they figure you are worth to them using your work for their product.

Good luck and work with it more before you completely decide!

SGT  

I usually use X hours at Y rate to figure out how much a skin should cost.

You can't price your work based on what income it will generate for your customer unless of course they are selling your work. If it's being used as a component, etc, etc. then it's going to be worth a set value.

Kind of agree with vStyler...I'm not a WB Skinner but, if you say 100 hours at $50/hr or 200 hours at $25/hr then you get the gist. Personally, I'd go into the meeting with two numbers what you want to get and what you're willing to settle for.



Y rate can be the tricky one to determine IMO.

Then make it 6 grand.



100 hours honestly, for a high quality, original, 100% complete skin, then add a vista version is also low.

Then take into account the years of making nothing.. its no different than going to college to learn a skill \ trade. What does an average college graduate make for a 2 month chunk of intensive work?

I, personally have invested my entire future in this as well as sacrificed my past/ and I wont settle for peanuts.. under any circumstances.

I am taking interest in skinning and sacrificing my study's precious hours in this since one year. The passion is unresistable. It gives me a lot satisfaction but.....
I am not sure about the carrer apportunities in skinning. Please tell me in detail...?

I made a gadget which can make planning and sheduling a lot easier for students mainly and for others too. I wanted to share it for free. But now I am trying to sell it on Desktoopgadgets.com because I have spent much time on its formation.

Ya I will get a lot more satisfaction and fun if I will share it for free but at this stage I want to make sure whether this can fetch money to me or not.

I am in dilemma whether to sell or share for free. I am thinking that if I will upload it on DesktopGadgets.com and it gets accepted then will people take interst in it or not? will it give me satisfaction and appreciation for my work?

Please tell me about how many people buy a gadget or skin in general if it is average?

Haptork,

I think the best thing to do is what RomanDA does. Both a free usually feature limited version with a link to the full pay version. It obviously works since Stardock and numerous other developers do it this way.

Some suggestions would be to add export functions (xls/spreadsheet, csv, html/css,ics??) into the advanced version.



You may get better answers on that specific question through the forum at DesktopGadgets but, you really won't know until you upload it.

Thanks a lot Sir you have cleared almost all confusions of mine but the worst thing is that I can't sell the gadget with my own name until I get 18.