re: Consulting on the side.

I feel you should name your price and stick to it. Give the customer great value and you should get fair share if you save or make the client money.

My fees usually work out to 500 plus an hour however I'd never tell a client that. ex. I may quote 5000 dollars for me to do x,y,z which I know may take me about 10 hours.

Starting out I did lots of 50 dollar an hour work and have had some that equalled into the thousands per hour because I negotiated a royalty. I look at like this, if I make you 1mm dollars would you give me 100k?