Need some input re: rate for some freelance front-end/data entry website work

I just finished a similar project.

Do some exploratory work up front. Upload a handful of items across several brands. Find out exactly what the platform will demand of you. How does the platform categorize items? Are there dependencies like: vendor specific pricing, customer specific pricing, etc? Once you feel comfortable with the process, you can extrapolate how long it will take to do thousands of items.

Outsource what you can. I hired virtual assistants from the Philippines through upwork.com to handle the busy work. They did stuff like data entry and social media posting.

You know it's going to be a lot of work. Plan on it being twice as much work as you think it will be.

Bro. I think I can help you on this.

If you're interested, I have a very good friend who runs an outsourcing operation in the Philippines. These people do great work for very cheap.

If this is an easy job that is very repetitive, you could just check their work and make way more money per hour.

I can personally vouch for them. Text me if you want his e-mail.

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I wouldn't even begin to consider this project for less than 10k

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1099s pay extra taxes, get no benefits, and only get paid via invoicing. All of this adds up to 1099 work being charged at a significantly higher rate than standard employees.

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yeah, i did some 1099 last year. i wrote off enough bullshite to make it a near non-issue. I ended up oversaving

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If you are going to do a lot of this work, look into setting up Carson Consulting LLC and bill the clients through the llc.

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if it takes as long as I think it will, this is what I will do

I'm a contract data analyst for an ecommerce company

This is going to take substantially more time than you think it is if you already have full time work. The only way I would even consider it would be to outsource all description writing, and finding people overseas and getting them trained to the level where you don't have to check all their work takes time. Descriptions for thousands of sku's is absurd - it's never done by the same person getting paid to handle a site platform or manage back end databases

I talked to him again, he said it's closer to 4000-5000 SKUs. Still a huge undertaking

Magento

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Would $2 per SKU be fair?

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Yes. That would actually be a good way to do it.

Does Magento take Excel uploads? If so that can be a yuuuuge timesaver. A lot of columns are the same the whole way down and others can be populated using formulas.

Be sure to set the inventory to a low initial number, like 5 or 10. That way you don't take a bath if there's a mistake.

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He said he just doesnt think hourly will work because some items i can just clone and knock out a ton at once (just changing 1 attribute)

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And my response would be if it's that easy why are you not doing it yourself?

I'd set up some sort of trial run at an hourly rate to see how long it would take and go from there.

I don't have the time to do this

I'll tell him I can help out with small jobs on a by-brand basis for store credit, but my full-time job just takes up too much of my time and I wouldn't be able to finish this by the time it needs to be done. Too much shite going on with my full time gig