Quoted a flat 3,000 for a five page site based on a brief. Three weeks in we're at fourteen pages, two of which need a filterable listing, plus a newsletter integration nobody mentioned. Client is pleasant and seems to…
Invoice for 4,200 went out on net 30, we're now at day 45. My contact replies within a day, is always friendly, and says accounts has it and it's in the system. I've asked twice for a payment date and got no date either…
New client, six week engagement, and in the two scoping calls so far they've changed the core requirement twice. They're not difficult, they're just early and figuring it out as they go. My instinct says hourly because…
I do 45 minute calls with prospects and they mostly turn into me diagnosing their problem out loud. About one in six turns into work. The other five say they'll think about it and I sometimes later see they've done…
Eight months freelancing full time. I track everything and I'm averaging about 19 billable hours out of a 40 hour week. The rest is proposals, invoicing, email, calls that go nowhere, and fixing my own website. I keep…