FEES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS

FEES

Our rates are as below and bookings may be made by an order in writing or by E-mail with valid purchase order number. Rates may be mixed during an assignment by agreement. Quantity and other discounts may be available.

SoHo Rate £350 per day
Aimed at clients who need advice and ideas but do not necessarily require formal dress or reports. Proceedings are normally documented by the client or client's staff with copies forwarded to us.

Small Business Rate £500 per day
Aimed at a situation where we attend a company on a semi-formal basis and prepare basic reports and recommendations. Normally this service would apply to small to medium sized organisations.

Medium Business Rate £700 per day
This rate is for more formal situations where formal dress and reports are required. This service is aimed at the medium to larger organisation and/or more complex marketing situations.

Corporate Rate: £1,000 per day
This rate provides the level of service and reporting normally associated with corporates and multinationals where higher levels of research and analysis are required and liaison with executives and client departments and divisions is involved.

Promotions Rate: £400 per day
This rate is for situations such as Exhibition Stand Duty or Presentation Delivery where formal dress is required but advice is not normally necessary. Sales or PR activity is the norm on these occasions.

Terms & Conditions

1. Our rates are as stated in “Fees”.

2. Bookings may be made by an order in writing or by E-mail with valid purchase order number.

3. Rates may be mixed during an assignment by agreement.

4. Quantity and other discounts may be available.

5. For Melville Marketing’s purposes, organisation size definitions are as follows:
· SoHo 1 to 2 Staff
· Small Business 3 to 10 staff
· Medium Business 11 to 150 staff
· Corporate Business 11 plus staff

6. Clients will receive the service levels booked and paid for irrespective of company size.

7. Chargeable days are normally eight hours including a 1 hour lunch break. Half days are 3½ hours. Travel in excess of one hour per day will be charged pro-rata as will telephone support/consultation, report/copy writing, research, design, prospecting and sales time.

8. Overnight accommodation, travel and subsistence costs will be charged at cost as applicable. Clients are encouraged to book and meet these costs directly.

9. Payment is expected within seven days of invoice and we reserve the right to charge interest at the rates charged to us by our bank including any penalties imposed and or pursue payment after thirty days. We also reserve the right to refuse further services until any outstanding invoice is paid, irrespective of debt age.

10. Where advance costs are to be incurred on a client’s behalf pre payment or scheduled payments will be required.

11. We reserve the right to make cancellation charges as appropriate. All bookings are chargeable unless cancelled in writing at least 48 hours (not including weekends and bank holidays) prior to commencement. Cancellations between two and seven working days prior will attract 50% fee charges. In all cases, resold time will not be chargeable.

12. Where we are ordering or buying services on a client’s behalf, we will endeavour to buy these at the most advantageous rate. Costs will be billed to the client as incurred, plus handling charges. We do not take agency commission on this trade as we believe that our rates provide just payment for our services. We would prefer to order these services through the client’s purchasing and payment systems in which case there is no handling charge levied.

13. We do not undertake ‘commission only’ or ‘payment on results only’ work.

14. It is accepted that all work is undertaken is on ‘best advice’ and ‘best practice’ bases and no guarantees are offered as to the efficacy or effectiveness or suitability for purpose of any strategy, tactics or implementations either suggested or performed.

15. Where no formal engagement of services is made but ideas, contacts, introductions and arrangements have been supplied either as part of the pitching process or as part of advice, consultancy or ordinary discussion with a view to doing business and where that information is used to make profits then a fee of 5% of sales value will be charged on any products or services deriving from the information supplied.

© Copyright Maurice Watts T/As Melville Marketing January 2007 All rights reserved

Details of Business:
Maurice T Watts, a sole trader, trading as Melville Marketing, at 2 the Glade, Staines, Middlesex, TW18 1EW. Tel: 01784 451066 E-Mail : wattsmt@melvillemarketing.com