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Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?

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Re: Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?

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Web agencies talk to clients and provide them with packaged services in understandable language.

Coding is a part of what clients pay for.

Agency clients want nothing to do with coding.

So make that part cheaper and faster and use the competitive advantage.

Re: Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?

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post #10

Not at all! My shop is having one of its best years ever. We've been switching to value based billing with our clients which has made them happier and us more profitable. Using AI powered prototypes to sell clients on new features has gone really well for us. Many of our clients have presold themselves on adding AI features of some kind, which is nice because it generally means they will need support for these featur…

What do you mean by value based billing?

I think it means charging based on the value of the work to the client not just the cost of doing the work.

That means if you get fast and efficient at doing something valuable for the clients you get to enjoy better margins because your costs are relatively low but the value is high so the customers still happily pay a good amount for it.

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