Run time profit calculation?

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There have been a lot of threads on this, maybe you missed them? I think the thing to search for is “pricing”, let’s see.

Ah yeah here we go, a bunch of guides and ideas:

15 Tips on Pricing

15 Tips on Pricing There’s a lot of chat on here and the facebook group about pricing. I put together these tips to help give some pointers when working out price. Charge what the customer will pay - not what you would pay - you always undervalue your own work. Pricing based on time plus materials is usually the wrong way to price. When calculating costs, include your fixed overheads as well as per item costs. Don’t forget packing and shipping which can be expensive. If you are …

How to Price Glowforge Projects

I think many of us here purchased the glowforge for reasons which include, hobby, new business or expanding on an existing business. I wanted to open a thread to discuss ideas with pricing your projects. Many times when starting a business this is by far one of the hardest things to do so with an open forum like this figured we can all help each other. I know there are many larger companies out there at least in my state like “Things Remembered” where many of my friends go during holidays and …

Pricing on making wholesale items? + Business marketing tip

With a real, live Glowforge in my front room, I can now make awesomeness to sell. I’m getting nibbles on custom ornaments for business to give to their customers and have little idea how to price them. If you have real-life examples of how you price one-off items and wholesale items, that would be awesome! To promote my new business and find customers I have been using Instagram. I follow and like posts from Georgia artists, makers, Realtors, etc, and if they follow me back I message them to th…

Pricing items and customer expectation vs. reality

One of my bosses recently asked me if I could somehow get an engraving of Spider-Ham onto a Pop-Socket for his son. [image] [image] I have just the thing I thought… so I did some work, modified the image so it would be better for engraving… ended up actually vectorizing it in a couple of different ways and overlapping to create two different engrave actions that had different settings. In the end I ran 4 or 5 test engraves before coming up with the final. At 5-6 minutes per engrave, my total …

Pricing Advice

This #whatmadethis campaign has been great. I’ve already got someone interested in buying a pro! An added bonus is, I have people checking out the Glowforge page with my designs. Somebody this week facebooked me and asked if they could buy my Eggo Coasters, possibly the box and all! Since this kind of hit me as a surprise, I’ve been looking over all the great pricing advice the glow folk have been giving and trying to cobble together some form of system for myself. I think I got a pretty good s…

And so on, there are a lot more threads like this, sure to be good info in there.

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=pricing