I loved window splashes before I became "too busy" to do them. I was the only hand letterer & as the owner with "the bigger picture" in mind, I let them go.
My shop of 16-17 years & beautiful 8000 sq. ft. building in downtown St. Cloud, Mn is for sale as some of you know. So i will be exiting St. Cloud.
My plan is to get back to the window splash days & have no idea what to charge.
Please help out! Posted by Randy Campbell (Member # 2675) on :
Pierre help the fellow out. Posted by Rene Giroux (Member # 4980) on :
Window splashes is one of the many products available at my sign shop ( check my web site )... They are fun to sketch out, fun to design....and the best part, I get to NOT do them !
You send Pierre Tardif the ready to work vector file and within a business week, it's at your door step, hand painted on TYVEK with 2-way tape ready to install, no mess, no inventory, no problems. Best value for the buck out there, and better quality than most of us can pull out, yea yea most of us as Letterheads...
Sometimes the best way to do something is to not do it at all !
Posted by Robert Salyers (Member # 5) on :
and my pricing guide is over 10 years old!
Posted by Dawud Shaheed (Member # 5719) on :
Micheal, get whatever you can. I go to the location and price on many factors. Height is very important. Are you going to need a lift of some sort? Or can you do it off a ladder?. Next will be illustration, will the artwork be complex and difficult to produce or will it be a knockout type job? Next thing to identify is what type of customer you are dealing with. Is this a mom and pop shop who is looking to get some attention to a struggling biz or is this a car dealership that spends $40,000 a month advertising? I tend to hang around the guys with a budget simply because they #1 have the money, #2 it's not their money and #3 it's their JOB to spend the money advertising so it makes my Job 100% easier. I don't use a pricing guide because not every job is the same for those reasons i listed. The way I figure it a good day for me consists of $250 in my pocket, a better day is 4 to $500 bux. An excellent day is around 7 to 800 and about as good as it gets at least for me is $1000 to $1200 dollars in a day but those days are few and far between. Thats me, and I do window splashes a lot and have developed a system to do them fast. I hope that helps.
Posted by Clinton Cooper (Member # 6802) on :
Hi Michael, The approach that works best for me is. I ask "Do they have a budget for the job?" Most people say "Ahhh, no not really." Then I give them the highest possible price for the window splash, explaining it will have illustations, blends, drop shadows, all the bells and whistles etc etc.... Sometimes, they say ok or they usually say ohh thats a bit more than I wanted to spend, I keep working my way down until they are a price that they are happy with. But I never sell myself short, NOW, I have been know to in the past. In my area there are only a few guys that do window splashes so a can charge a little bit more... Besides they are awsome fun out in the sunshine, headphones on being creative!! Thats my 2 cents.
Cheers, good luck with it!
Posted by Dawud Shaheed (Member # 5719) on :
yeah, definately creating a mental picture or even a quick digital printed with graphics layout will help in getting more money for the job. If it's a big job I usually sell it the same way I sell a sign with a couple of designs starting at high, medium and Low and outlining the difference between them. A picture says a thousand words. It's a bit of work, but that's what it takes.
Posted by Michael R. Bendel (Member # 5847) on :
Thanks everyone.
Very helpful!
I'll check out Pierre.
The actual design & lettering is what I'll be doing as I did 6-8 years ago.
Sorry to create a double head banger for ya Randy..?
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
simple sq ft pricing is youre best shot. NEVER EVER GO LESS THEN $3 A SQ FT, and that would be for large sq ft jobs over 100 sq ft. $4 sq ft for most non art work and windows under 100 sq ft to 50 sq ft. smaller windows then 50 sq ft you need to get $5-8 sq ft. art work adds more per dollar. but window splashes dont happen here in pcola......i see some new guy doin car windshields but when i was doin them i wouldnt do less then 10 and @ $3-4 each. now those you dont spend anymore then 5 min on a windshield.
Posted by Dawud Shaheed (Member # 5719) on :
I get between $5 and $7 a windshield. I usually tell them I have a minimum of 20 cars so I can at least squeeze $100 out of em'.
If they give me at least 20 and are painting directly on the windshield I charge them $5.
If they give me at least 20 and are painting on a clear plastic vinyl that I use I charge $6
and if they give me less than 20 I charge them either 6 or 7 depending if it's on the vinyl or not.
I've charged up to $10 a car (because somebody wanted me to paint cars and it was 2 hr. ride for me so I charged him 10 bux a car. nice....
OP, charge at least $5 for a car that's the going rate now, at least.
btw, the car dealers love the removable vinyl because of it's ease.
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