[lifeisstillgood]

I think I see where you are going with this and am interested in how your pricing is working out.

You seem to have a flat monthly fee structure - and at a fairly "high" price point. If I was "just" looking for a logo I could pay your monthly fee just once at somewhere like 99designs, so I might not take retainer. But if I had greater needs for design 250 a month would be a bargain and you are too low and you will be doing a lot of work for nearly zero.

How has it been working out?

Have you considered tiered pricing ?

[aminmemon]

To get a decent logo/branding done, one would have to spend around $200-$400 where we can provide 1 month retainer for almost similar price point, which is the real bargain! One could get their Logo, Stationery or anything else designed with the same price point.

It has been working out really great, We have launched around more than month back and we are at $3,325 in MRR. We are writing our journey here : Zero to $3,325 MRR in 30 days (http://draftss.com/blog/index.php/2018/06/18/zero-to-3325-mr...)

We are looking for a strong feedback on our pricing model. What do you mean about tiered pricing? Would love to know more :)

[lifeisstillgood]

I love the rent-an-in-house-designer concept - it solves a big mental block I have had with the 99designs style approach.

However I get the feeling your price point may be too low - there is a lot of value a designer can add, not just in "logos and stationary", and that can mean a lot of work - I guess you just have to suck it and see.

Which takes me to tiers - it's a lot easier to have the "you are now in the platinum tier" conversation than the "stop asking me to do a full time gig on 200 bucks"

As it is so hard to guess how much work, and you want to get away from looking like it's piece work, can I suggest offering streams of work. Bear with me

Logos and stationary are one basic stream of work. But the long term gigs will probably come from two classes of company - mid sized firms wanting to get in-house designers to revamp the existing art work to be more consistent, and I strongly suspect internal enterprise teams wanting to build distinctive internal brands

That to my mind gives three streams - the try-me-out level of logos and stationary, the internal branding and the wider revamp. Each feels like increasing amounts of complex work. but each feels like a distinct market, and with levels inside

Edit I guess the internal brand one is most exciting to me - give developers a pattern library for their app, and keep adding to it as they add features or work. A bootstrap/react pattern library that you can retheme would probably go long way?