Worked with first generation SME Entrepreneurs in their business challenges (Pain Areas) for last 17 years from Strategy to implementation.
He started his career in marketing his natural acquaintance with people drove him to look out for a career in People Management which moved him eventually to mentoring people for results. His experience in working with first generation Entrepreneurs has driven him to act as a Mentor through NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network, A Wadhawani Foundation initiative). He Mentors Entrepreneurs across India on various business challenges. He is currently working with a $50 M Growth Accelerator at Bangalore as a Strategic Consultant & Mentor for their Seed fund Incubation process.
. His recent success story is E commerce portal www.9gardens.com a home gardening portal. With the same organisation he had worked with a Knowledge portal www.seedbuzz.com in commercializing its services within a period of three months. His contribution started from Strategic planning to new Product/Service design and delivery in these projects.
In my experience with designers for more than a decade you've to fix the price based on average cost of all your resources If you do it you will not be able to check the costs involving multiple resources. If you wanted to bring transparent pricing model educating your clients are challenging. Alternatively if you have enough experience to understand the resource needs with less than 2% deviation then work on different costs involved and come with a standard pricing.
If you are able to get projects which could be executed with resources outside the client premises that could be a good start. You can also try resource intensive transactional work This could bring some maturity to the client. We cannot sell time and earn money. It was vague when I started but there's a great improvement.