rudyvise
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- Jul 6, 2008
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Ok, heres a little story that made me $20K from a client i sold the same website too - TWICE.
Basically i made them a website for $5K. Then about 6 months after i received a call from them asking me how they could alter the website. They told me that they had hired another developer to extend the website, but the developer had said that he could not access the code because it was encrypted.
So i said to the client did he want access to the code then. At which point he said yes. So i said "so do you want to purchase the intellectual property rights to the code then?
To which he replied " "don't i have the rights to the code anyway?"
And i replied. "Not according to the contract i have with you -- no!"
"You have the right to use the website and maintain it via the web interface - but i own the rights to the underlying code". I told him that the code was copyright "my company" and that if he wanted it, it was going to cost him $20K.
3 days later he phoned back with a purchase order number and I handed over the keys to the code.
So basically i sold him a website for $5K and the code for the website for $20K.
I'm pretty sure if you got creative, you could do something far more lucrative.
best,
Rudy
Basically i made them a website for $5K. Then about 6 months after i received a call from them asking me how they could alter the website. They told me that they had hired another developer to extend the website, but the developer had said that he could not access the code because it was encrypted.
So i said to the client did he want access to the code then. At which point he said yes. So i said "so do you want to purchase the intellectual property rights to the code then?
To which he replied " "don't i have the rights to the code anyway?"
And i replied. "Not according to the contract i have with you -- no!"
"You have the right to use the website and maintain it via the web interface - but i own the rights to the underlying code". I told him that the code was copyright "my company" and that if he wanted it, it was going to cost him $20K.
3 days later he phoned back with a purchase order number and I handed over the keys to the code.
So basically i sold him a website for $5K and the code for the website for $20K.
I'm pretty sure if you got creative, you could do something far more lucrative.
best,
Rudy
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