> So yeah; I have a very limited number of "wake me up" slots I can sell. They need to be expensive. Retainers, man, they're wonderful. You can oversell to a s

> So yeah; I have a very limited number of "wake me up" slots I can sell. They need to be expensive. Retainers, man, they're wonderful. You can oversell to a small extent, which is unlikely to make your life fun when everything falls over on the same weekend, but is otherwise very lucrative. Figure you oversubscribe by 50% and split half of the difference with the customer in savings - $1500 * 8 customers for what would normally cost them $2000 for your time, or something like that. You can arrange it so at most you're waking up 4x over the weekend, mean of 1x and median of <1x. The way I've done it in the past, it's a flat fee for having your time available, and then X hours at a substantial discount, further hours at the normal flat rate, that way they have an incentive not to burn your time unless they need you - I used to just do 10 hours a month for free with retainer but then you get mickey mouse work just to use the hours at the end of the month.