First Offline Client Meeting - Help!

Hey Warriors,

So yesterday i got a phone call from my friend saying that their parents land-lord wants a website for their new patent pending product in the hunting niche.

Their site is to sell the product itself from the site and they already have a domain name but need hosting and the site designed. From what he said in our short telephone call the site is very simple and just needs alot of pictures (so a gallery section and pictures spread throughout) and have paypal intergrated (he suggested paypal) so people can buy the product and order it.

Now i said i would meet him tommorow at his house and run through everything for him and he said he needs the site done for this weekend. Short time scale but easily achievable even if the site isnt 100% perfect and needs some fine tuning over the weekend.

Now hes kinda rich so he should pay well and said a few times he would pay and it isnt just as a favour.

But anyhow....

Im thinking a wordpress site so its easy for me to put up and then get a template up too and then add the content and plugins etc etc.... All very easy.

Then either make myself or get created a banner and logo for his site (maybe combined depending on what he wants) and then the rest is all just written content and information on the product which he can either write or after out meeting i will gather enough information to write myself as a sales page kinda style but more informative too.

Then the meeting....

Seeing as he already definatly wants me to do the site for him im thinking of a £100 to £500 price tag just for the site and all images and then included in that price is some keyphrase research for his business, search engine optimization which is basicly all done by wordpress anyhow and then finally search engine submission which is dead simple but seems like its more value for money and is still important.

Then i want to talk to him about marketing for his site and brand name/product name and talk to him about both fixed prices per job or monthly marketing and email him a document with all the information and prices after i find out his budget/aims and of course plan of action.


So ive created a document that i will fill in as a notepad kinda thing on my laptop with all his details and basicly take notes on it while im talking to him. With a to do list which will hopefully be very full by the end of it all!

Then also a list of my pricing's and stuff as a guide and also my hostgator affiliate link so if anything i get the $50 commission from him for the hosting i helped setup.


I talked to my dad who is a indipendant financial advisor and meets people to close deals all the time and he gave me some advice which was basicly to listen to them before i pitch everything and they turn off. Plus ask them what their budget is and say 'i can accomodate your budget' if its low or 'that budget seems reasonable' if its higher , but also will give me an idea of what i can provide him with for his budgeting. Plus if its monthly then thats even better too especially if i become his marketing manager guy.

Anyhow.... any advice people??

Im especially a bit worried about the payment processing and him selling his product. I want to make it as easy for him as possible and really want him to be able to see the address and name of the person and their payment details as quickly as possible but im not that skilled in php or anything to create a fully fledged system to do all that. As it stands he would have to login to paypal and view each transaction.

Thanks

Tom Brite