It was difficult to choose the right price point for Web-D-Zine( WDZ ), because although the owners of GemBiz know that it can really power your business, and is powering a variety of businesses, Those businesses are just a very small small sub-section of the business community. A community that is growing, but at the time of deciding the price point, still quite small, so we have decided to look at the question from two prospectives.

What do we need to continue cruising?

So lets say we want to stay in a Marina, that costs about £30-£40 per day. So lets say £30 for that and £20 for everything else. This is not an extravagant lifestyle, but we have never lived extravagantly. So now that we have the basic block we can build the price point for WDZ

• Cheap Stake Option - Pay as and when you need WDZ. Cost £60 for 30days of use. Fill in the forms and create the code you want. Ideal for anybody who wants to create a back-end system for a particular type of customer, then clone the same code to create 100's of web sites for example.
• Regular Customer - Pay £50 per month(minimum contract 3 months), for this you will have access to WDZ, but you will also be part of a growing community. Share your profile plus there are lots of other benefits, but for us access to the form tool is just fantastic.

If WDZ takes off, then the price point might well change, as we might have to employ somebody, but at the start we are quite low as all you need to do is fund one day of cruising per month.

Charge out rate

When working I have several charge out rates, with admin being the cheapest and code writing the most expensive. My highest rate that I have ever charged is £100 per hour, using WDZ I can usually create the guts of the system in an hour, creating between 5 and 6 tables and the back end system that is associated with those tables in that hour. Once the initial hour is used to create the basis of the system then, I usually charge a smaller fee for additional work. Using these figures as the basis then the

• Cheap Stake Option - Pay as and when you need WDZ. Cost £100 for 30days of use. Fill in the forms and create the code you want. Ideal for anybody who wants to create a back-end system for a particular type of customer, then clone the same code to create 100's of web sites for example.
• Regular Customer - Pay £60 per month(minimum contract 3 months), for this you will have access to WDZ, but you will also be part of a growing community. Share your profile plus there are lots of other benefits, but for us access to the form tool is just fantastic.

Which of these options will be the final price is yet to be seen, but some ranges are being considered.