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People that create for a living often get freelance inquiries – be it from friends, colleagues, family or random clients; opportunities to make a little extra money occasionally arrive.

In this episode of Halftime, Adam touches on the infamous topic of pricing for freelancers. Having been involved as a business owner for nearly 10 years, Adam shares some of his knowledge about pricing strategies and offers some solutions that may work for you.

The show touches on 3 strategies: hourly rate, retainers and fixed-fee pricing.

Mentions and valuable links:

• The Case Against Paying Designers by the Hour via Fast Company
• Let's Kill the Billable Hour by Jon Lax of TeehanLax
• Your rate (hourly rate calculator)
• Freelance Hourly Rate Calculator
• Pentagram
• Paula Scher
• New York Jets Identity by Pentagram
• College Football Playoff Identity by Pentagram
• The Business Side of Creativity book

Our next guest is Bethany Heck. Bethany is the designer founder of Eephus League, a baseball website dedicated to the game and its culture. She was also recently a designer at IBM's Mobile Innovation Lab in Austin, Texas.

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