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Yeah, the whole article seems centered around "I don't do hourly billing" and all of the reasons (to me) actually read like reasons to do hourly billing. Why d

• ilaksh 6y ago
  For example: it's easy for someone to be a few minutes late to a meeting, then get an unexpected "emergency", then come back a little later than expected, and then after the meeting they remember something important and put it in a short email. So in a case like that, you might technically have only been talking to them off and on for an hour, but really it ended up taking most of your morning. By leaving it as big chunks like that and clarifying that is how it is up front, there can't be any dispute about how that sort of thing gets billed. Also, it makes it less likely to get clients who are trying to milk every penny out of budgets. Which is good because that usually means the budget isn't really adequate. Also I don't take a bunch of simple jobs. I take one or two challenging projects at a time. I don't want to encourage people to keep popping in and out of my schedule with little nagging requests.