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Website exclusivity question
Hi All,
Hope someone can advise. I have the opportunity to develop a database driven website for someone but the want exclusive rights to it, in other words to stop any competitor of theirs using me to build a similar site.
Are there any industry standards on this, e.g. that they pay an additional annual supplement of X% of the development fee to maintain exclusivity, and if so what should X be?
Thanks.
Hope someone can advise. I have the opportunity to develop a database driven website for someone but the want exclusive rights to it, in other words to stop any competitor of theirs using me to build a similar site.
Are there any industry standards on this, e.g. that they pay an additional annual supplement of X% of the development fee to maintain exclusivity, and if so what should X be?
Thanks.
- Price of exclusivity
Hi,
You could take the view of how much is the system worth commercially. If you could sell 5 a year you must charge 5 times the value for exclusivity, but be realistic if you could sell 1 every 3 years charge 30% a year, If you use this a s a formula you should be able to calculate the exact cost of exclusivity. (I would not go lower than 10/20% in any eventuality)
Hope this helped.
PS, I am looking for a developer for a school based software system, if you have any capacity I can send you a brief.
Rick Jones
rickjonesmedia@yahoo.co.uk - arent they basically just saying they want you to work for them? In which case they would have to give you an annual wage? By making the site exclusive they are limiting the amount of work you can do in the future.
Most freelance contracts stipulate that you do not use their work in your own portfolio, fair enough, but they dont say you cant work on similar projects in the future. - i dont know if there are any industry standards... but you can google on this..I AM WHAT I AM!!!
