Serious answer, explain this to your full time clients, and ask for more money. Realistically, higher rates come with non-commodity services. This means relati

Serious answer, explain this to your full time clients, and ask for more money. Realistically, higher rates come with non-commodity services. This means relationship based- they know you are worth it, or turnkey where you give advice and make decisions for the client, instead of just doing what they tell you. If you're just delivering a commodity (and broadly I mean work that is scoped by the client), you can only compete on price and you'll always get a worse rate. Another tactic that comes with non-commodity work is fixed pricing, where you take on the risk and upside of delivering. If you're good, you can make more money out of the risk premium, which may be worth it as a small operator (because the downside is just more hours which is manageable