Of course you should charge! If you do it for free you send the wrong signal as if your services are not worth anything. Why don't you make a deal that you will charge them but if they indeed give you a job in the project you will drop the charges. This way they get your professional work and pay for it if you will part later. Otherwise I have to assume they just are looking for someone stupid enough to do their job for free. I once had a VP ask me to write a whole marketing plan otherwise he would not even give me an interview. I posted that on a job board and it came out that he did this with candidates for every position. The CEO found out and fired him! Do not support this kind of abuse, I am sure they would not give you anything for free if you would ask for 2 days of their services. At 06:39 PM 3/6/2003 +0000, you wrote: >Hi, > >A consulting company I have a light relationship wants me to help them >work on an RFP. > >This will take about 2 days of my time. > >They said that they would give me a job on the project if it gets approved. > >How do I deal with the fact that they want 2 days of my time for free. >Should I charge to help write an RFP? > >How do I negotiate around this? > >Thanks, > >Dan > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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