I am giving a bid for data entry. Can anyone help me?

Question

I am presenting a bid to enter a years worth of receipts into the Quicken program for three accounts. Personal, business and money market. Does anyone know how I would bid this job out? Please help.

Answer 1

I would not do this work on a fixed price basis. I would convince the person that I am the right person for the job by offering to do the first 8 hours free if he/she is not happy. If you do a good job, the job will be yours.

The most you can lose is 8 hours. But if you go fixed, you could lose weeks of time. You have no idea how well organized the receipts are; how easy they are to read and whether they are clearly marked as the category they must go into.

Answer 2

You don’t have enough information or you would not be asking the question.

1) Figure out how much you want per hour (or what the market will bear).

2) Figure out how many hours it will take you to do the job. (this probably is where your problem lies… you haven’t defined the work for yourself)

3) Be honest and consider in the past when you told someone how long it would take to do something, how long it actually took. If you say you can fix dinner in 30 minutes and it actually took 1 hour, then double #2. Don’t consider what you would “like” to say or the best length of time you can do it in.

4) Add 15% to the total hours you come up with in #3.