Before work ever begins on any project, a subtle, psychological game of “you go first” must take place over the budget. This is without a doubt, a frustrating game for both sides. As an agency, we don’t want to waste … Continued
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The Anatomy of a Deliverable
What is a deliverable? We use this term in Evenflow and in our daily work for clients, but the definition may not be obvious to everyone. Let me define it by first explaining why we need the term. For most … Continued
Your Estimates are Wrong and It’s Costing You
No matter how much experience you have, unless you’re breaking your estimates down into smaller pieces, all the way down to the individual tasks — they’re likely to be wrong. Potentially very wrong. When Estimates Go Wrong With web technologies … Continued
Evenflow Tutorial
Our newest addition to Evenflow is a nine step tutorial that will walk new and old users alike through the basics of creating a proposal in Evenflow. Completing every goal will hopefully introduce you to some powerful features of Evenflow … Continued
How to Raise Your Rate (and Stop Competing on Price)
You can raise your rate in Evenflow with a few clicks. Getting clients to pay the higher rate is a bit more difficult, but not impossible. The way to charge more, without being undercut by competitors, is to increase the … Continued
Evenflow Updated to Version 2.2
We closed 12 tickets on Zendesk (our support forum and ticket system), fixed 4 other bugs, and added a pricing page to the sign-up process. For our next release, we plan to finish our interactive tutorial, which should help users new … Continued
Proposal Versioning
One of the really useful features that we’ve included with Evenflow is the ability to create multiple versions of any quote and proposal. This will allow you to create similar, but different options for your clients to choose from. When … Continued
We have officially launched!
With lots of hard work from everyone on our team, we managed to launch Evenflow at the start of South by Southwest 2012! We were just in time for the flood of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs to wash over Austin. Along … Continued
New Evenflow Features (v1.2)
In addition to some bug fixes, we’ve added a couple big new features to Evenflow with version 1.2, which is online now if you’re already an Evenflow user. Last week we were focused on three main things: descriptions, flat cost tasks, … Continued
Web Proposal Survey Results: 2011
At the end of 2011, we did a small survey of web design and development professionals, asking them about how they estimate projects and write proposals. As a professional design agency ourselves, the results were enlightening. We write about 8-10 … Continued