The project tests assumptions and theories about the industry:
do flat fees work, what is the efficacy of firm legal project management, is competitive bidding valuable, does consolidated spend help, and so on.
Sam Glover: Although, I would say so my approach to unbundling in my practice was to
do flat fees.
Hecht says with anything litigation - oriented or adversarial, it's difficult to
do flat fees because «you've got a significant wild card in an opposing party.»
Of those, I only
do flat fees for estate planning.
We would like to
do a flat fee.
Other wonderful lawyers
do a flat fee for various work whether it's drafting or it's negotiation or working by the day and people can really get even a better consumer idea than working from with me.
«Facing the Alternative: How
Does a Flat Fee System Really Work?»
Does your flat fee cover your costs?
We all seem to be moving toward value billing — but
does a flat fee arrangement impact service quality or the level of talent assigned to the work?
CLP
does flat fee IP litigation.
Not exact matches
That doesn't leave Square a lot of wiggle room if the credit card companies decide to raise interchange
fees: «Because we generally charge our sellers a
flat rate,» higher swipe
fees «could make our pricing look less competitive, lead us to change our pricing model, or adversely affect our margins,» the company said in its prospectus.
You can charge a
fee based on commission, or just a
flat fee to be
doing the work.
Another lesson from the U.S. experience is that consumers» empowerment by the Internet
does not end with FSBO sites and
flat -
fee listings on the MLS.
Rather than require membership in a program, as companies like Shipt
do, Walmart simply charges a
flat fee of $ 9.95 for delivery.
As a result, Netflix is in effect a competitor to those companies» on - demand cable TV services, which charge on a pay - per - view basis rather than offering a
flat monthly
fee like Netflix
does.
Ubiquity's
flat, monthly, fixed subscription
fee means you don't pay an administrative
fee based on the amount you have saved.
All a business has to
do is pre-fund a batch payment with BitPay for a
flat 1 %
fee, and BitPay issues the mass payouts within one business day.
Sure, we could offer big bundles for
flat monthly
fees, but that type of plan actually makes more profit when your site
does poorly.
While you'll have to pay a small amount per trade, these
fees are usually
flat fees and don't scale up percentage-wise like actual commissions from brick - and - mortars and brokerages from yesteryear.
If you are truly confident, all you've got to
do is negotiate with the seller with staggered commission levels based on the selling price e.g.
flat fee of $ 20,000 under $ 2M, $ 100,000 commission if sold for $ 2.1 M, etc..
Because Nadex charges a
flat fee per contract rather than reaping a profit when losing trades are made like a broker
does, when you stay at Nadex, they make more money.
With a
fee - only planner, you'll pay a
flat sum for the work that a planner
does for you.
A membership costs a small yearly
flat fee, and SICTIC
does not take any finder's
fees or investment commissions.
Surprisingly, it
did go through in less than a day and the
fee was a reasonable $ 10
flat.
Unlike online fundraising platforms that take a percentage - based commission from startups or that charge startups a large
flat fee, Space Angels
does not charge startups money when it invests in them.
Don't
fLatter urself......... Our onLy reaListic Target is Chukwueze and the
fee is even a stumbling block
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Do you bill by the hour or charge a
flat fee?
Instead of
doing that, he paid a media placement firm a
flat fee and saved a lot of money.»
Matt Fernando, a spokesman for the legislative GOP majority released a statement that didn't address
fee hikes, but highlighted the caucus» role in previously holding property taxes largely
flat and shrinking the workforce: «We intend to advance these taxpayer protective principles as we analyze Mangano's last budget.»
At ThredUp, they charge a
flat fee for returns (it's free if you
do store credit), so you don't have to worry about expensive shipping costs for returning a heavy package.
We could also
do a revenue share or a
flat fee for a year, with an option to renew.
For one small
flat fee (and sometimes for no
fee at all) you can scope out women, learn what they like, what they don't like, check out their picture and actually begin swapping emails, IMs and talking with them.
So keep that in mind when considering your book's production and price point; you want the book to look nice and fit in someone's purse / bag / backpack (and 6 × 9 is a little hefty for fiction books), but you also don't want your epic fantasy at 200 - thousand words to cost $ 20 to print at cost (the
flat fee you pay simply for the materials, without the distributor's or your profits factored in yet).
Mary Mary — I should make it clear that the
flat -
fee services
do NOT include representation.
And I respect artists who
do covers and pay them the same way New York traditional publishers pay them:
Flat Fee.
Whether it's a
flat fee for the «book publicity project upon launch»; a monthly retainer arrangement; or one is hired for a variety of projects — from the initial book publishing date to ongoing projects related to the book over a period of time, a good publicist can
do wonders... but they can't guarantee anything.
Since translators carry the risk of sales just as much as the author
does when working indie, the risk has to be compensated with higher royalty rates when paying lower
flat fees up front.
Are consumers willing to pay a
flat fee or a subscription rate to have access to books, magazines, and textbooks, or
do digital media consumers prefer a subsidized model where they receive their information free in exchange for being exposed to advertisements?
Barnes & Noble
did not answer my questions about who is considered the publisher of the book (James Patterson, Patterson's traditional publisher Little Brown, or Barnes & Noble) and
did not disclose how the financial arrangement is working (whether Patterson is donating the work, receiving a
flat fee or receiving some kind of royalty based on the number of bundles sold).
What services can be offered equitably where a 15 % rate (a cost that rises with the books sold) is warranted when there are providers out there
doing the same work for a
flat fixed
fee?
My ideal agent would collaborate with their authors on each book project to figure out if it would
do better traditional or should the author self publish — even if they pay the agent a
flat fee to help.
Image
does not charge creators for printing, distribution, or their standard
flat production
fee.
And especially, what are they
doing for the money that we couldn't
do ourselves or pay someone to
do for a cheaper /
flat fee?
These suggestions
do not cover permissions for third - party content, like poems or images, for which you paid a
flat fee for particular distribution terms (e.g. 5000 paperback copies for South African schools).
You can find narrators there to pay
flat fee or
do profit share, royalty split 50/50 for example).
@Richard — I think Amazon doesn't charge a
flat fee (and instead a percentage of sales) because it's in the business to make money.
Those who
do produce audio for a
flat fee are often very expensive.
The authors of packaged books are generally contracted as «work for hire»; that is, they are paid a
flat fee and
do not get paid royalties on the book sales.
The business model that Scribd and Oyster used to get big publishers to sign on — one in which the publisher was paid, essentially, an ebook's full wholesale price when a reader completed just a portion of it — doesn't appear to be sustainable, especially when the customers willing to pay a
flat monthly
fee are also those who read a lot.
I chose eJunkie because they didn't have a funky legal agreement like some of the other download services, and they charge just a
flat $ 5 / month
fee to handle the downloads you can sell using a third party payment system.