Most artists quote their fee based on time. How many hours will this take? What's my hourly rate? Multiply. Send the invoice.
That covers labor. It does not cover what you are actually giving away.
When a client hires you, they are not only buying hours of your hands moving. They are buying (or should be buying) a specific set of rights to what your hands produce. Usage rights. Licensing terms. Exclusivity windows. Geographic restrictions. Duration of use. Buyout provisions.
Each one of those has a dollar value. Each one changes the shape of the deal. A logo used on one local pop-up for 6 months is a fundamentally different product than the same logo used globally across all media in perpetuity.
The hours are identical. The deals are not even close.
Most artists price the hours. Professionals price the deal.
If you have never structured a quote around usage, licensing, territory, and sole rights, you are leaving real money on the table. Not small money. The kind of money that compounds across every project you do for the rest of your career.
This is what I built The Pricing Verdict to solve - https://abbadabba.com/verdict/ Not a calculator (calculators do math on inputs). It's a system that walks you through the full economic shape of any deal, so you stop giving away the parts of the job that actually carry the most value.
Just create.™
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