Thank you for considering Tim Foley Studios. We know working with an organization such as ours often prompts a few questions. Our process ensures the best quality work to fit your needs.

Our Charges

Like all service organizations, our invoices are based on the time we invest in a project. Currently we bill our time at $100 per hour, about 10% under what other firms of our quality and experience charge. Project costs range from a low couple thousand dollars up to tens of thousands, depending on our clients’ needs and budgets. We always provide a detailed proposal and estimate for approval before starting. We adhere to our estimates unless project specifications change.

Laying the Foundation

The first thing we do after being assigned a project is schedule information-gathering meetings with you. We are interested in scheduling, budget, and job specifications, as well as your preferences, target audience, and objectives. We also want to know all the user features and benefits of the product.

Understanding the situation

Before we can begin to create a solution for you, we do our best to acquire the understanding and knowledge of your company, product, or service. That takes meetings, time and effort on our part to gain the understanding and insight that your experience and intuition have given you.

Developing the Right Ideas

Good creative work doesn’t often come in a flash of inspiration. It usually comes from a lot of trial and error. This is why we need to take the time to consider several approaches (concepts), work them through, try them out. Then revise them. In addition there are usually some practical and functional ends we need to tie up before submitting our ideas—sub-contractor availability and estimates, scheduling requirements, etc.

All this, plus the need to schedule our workflow in a businesslike fashion, means that we normally ask for up to two weeks, depending on the job’s complexity, before we submit our rough approaches (concepts) for your review. Of course, if you have a rush project or deadline pressure we adjust our workflow accordingly.

Our rough concepts consist of 2 or 3 presentation of ideas. They are adequate to convey what we believe is the best approach, taking into consideration your budget, schedule, objectives, and preferences. On the other hand they are not so developed as to have wasted time and effort if we need to make a course correction.

After presenting, we’ll ask for comments. The more objective and specific you can be, the better we will be able to respond. Comments are our input for revising the rough concepts into a finished one. Revision normally takes us about a week, and we schedule a second presentation shortly thereafter.

Finishing the job

From the input at this second presentation meeting further minor refinements are made as necessary. We also finalize the production timetable, and the scheduling of additional services such as copy, photography, illustration, or programming.

Ensuring Your Satisfaction

We recommend the finished layout/screenshots be routed to the appropriate decision makers for fact and detail checking only, reserving stylistic and subjective decisions to the project manager. To avoid costly confusion, it is important that all communication with us come from the project manager.

During the project we keep your project manager informed of our progress. Activities that will affect the schedule or budget are identified in writing. Our goal is to keep things moving ahead quickly, smoothly, and cost-effectively.

Thank you again for considering working with Tim Foley Studios. We can meet you to show samples of work we have done for similar companies and discuss how we can help you with your communications.

Contact us to set up a half hour appointment.

Tim Foley