Turn-around time

[Yowser]

For those of you who build sites for clients, do you guarantee any kind of turn-around time? In other words, do you tell them they will have a website by a certain amount of time after they make their first deposit?

[Jas]

I do that when I do PHP programming.

[Brandon]

You should, so they know when they will have the product, around.

[ipodman]

I give them an estimated time line but tell them that their maybe delays when making a site I also give daily updated and copies of what I am doing.

[Brandon]

Nothing worse then when they email you contantly asking to see what you've done so far when you havnt started, hah.

[NetBusinessTalk]

I like to give my clients a timespan of when I could have the job finished by, but I give no guarantees. For instance, I might say that this job will take me between three to four weeks. That way they'll be happy when you deliver the job early and won't be too upset when you deliver the job later.