[AccessD] Maintenance Fees?

Arthur:

OT but perhaps the moderator will forgive as it is Shabbos :) - IME there
are musicians who want to play together for every level of musician.
Whatever your skill level there ARE others at your level and you can all
improve your chops together.  When I moved from electric to string bass two
years ago I was a terrible hack.  Now I can gig regularly and know enough
how to cover up my hackiness. :)

Is there something in your town like this:
http://www.meetup.com/San-Diego-Jazz-Collective/ for Indian music players?
If not, start one on Meetup and you'll have your group before you know it. I
started playing with the collective when I switched to upright, got to play
with lots of people of different levels, and everybody gets a chance to
play, to solo, and improve.  Wonderful application of social media
technology.

R

 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 11:27 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Maintenance Fees?

IMO, you rolled several questions into one, here. First thing to consider is
whether you are going to perform actual work in each month of your alleged
billable time. Conversely, consider this arrangement from the client's point
of view; two months go by and you haven't lifted a finger, but still request
payment, and for what? Promising not to die and leave said client dangling?
Alternatively, said client will demand this or that trivial fix (move this
textbox a few millimeters to the left, and enhance this report).

Next question is, can you re-sell said app to other clients, or is it a
one-off? In the former case, then a monthly fee makes economic sense; in the
latter case, every embellishment/enhancement is billable separately, and
later for the monthly payment.

In the case of repeat sales, you might wish to talk to Rocky Smolin, whose
product EZ-ERP he managed to sell to somebody and then revert to his
vocation as a jazz musician. I'm thinking of following in his footsteps, but
sadly there are few opportunites in said community for tabla players, and
even if there were some, although I have taken lessons from three of the
best tabla players in the world (Zakir Hussain, Swapan Chaudhuri and Ritesh
Das), my skills are sadly lacking. Such is life. O well.

A.


On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:36 PM, John Serrano
<john.k.serrano at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have recently written an app in MS Access 2010.
> Application went pretty easy, however I am getting calls about "tweaking"
> the application or making enhancements. So I was discussing with them 
> maybe a maintenance fee?
>
> Does anyone charge past clients a monthly maintenance fee? or is it a 
> straight bill rate time number of hours you work on "whatever"?
> If you do, can you give me a ball park range for the east coast of the 
> US of A.
> PA to be exact...
>
> any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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