Ruddle Creative writes, designs, produces, prints and/or posts newsletters, direct mail, brochures, websites, identity systems, fliers, advertisements, presentations, press releases and speeches for a wide range of clients -- profit, nonprofit, not-as-profit-as-they-wanna-be, large, medium, and small. Our fees are middle-of-the-market and extremely reliable. We use flat rates such as "by the page" so that our clients do not have to watch the clock or suffer the shock of surprise from our invoices.

Our creative fees fall into three categories:

Design/setup -- typically a one-time fee for creating the "look and feel" of the project at hand. For small, straight-forward projects with a lot of client input our fee runs in the $500-$800 range. For more elaborate projects such as logo/collateral design or major brochure system, our design/setup fee will run in the $2,500-$3,500 range.

Research/writing -- for most writing projects, we interview 1-2 primary sources and otherwise rely on secondary sources for information. In that situation, our fees typically run $150-$250 per page (500 words) depending on the complexity of the work.

Layout/production -- Our production fees run from $75/page for very simple projects such as fliers and ordinary web pages, up to $250/page for brochures and some newsletters.

Once we establish a rate with a client, we stick with it for at least a year before we review it. With the exception of a handful of extraordinary situations in the past 20 years, what we quote is what we bill. Since we have a continuing relationship with clients, our philosophy is that for every project that runs way over our time budget, there will be another project that gets done under budget.