Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more

Re:Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more by tptacek on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:20PM (#8707262)

If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and 3 hours the next and then I'm done, I bill one day.

If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and then I'm done, I bill one day.

If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and then I'm done, and then the client asks me to build a Bar widget and I work 3 hours the next day and then I'm done, I might bill 1 day or I might bill 2, depending on the relationship. This doesn't come up much.

If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and then I'm done, and then a week later the client asks me to build a Bar widget and I work 3 hours next week and then I'm done, I bill 2 days.

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Re:Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more by newlog on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:18PM (#8708106)

I missed the "If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day, 3 hours the next and 3 hours the next and then I'm done, I bill ¿?."

One or two days? :) It depends on the client?

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Re:Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more by tptacek on Saturday December 06, 2014 @12:28AM (#8708461)

I'd probably bill 1 day if I did the work in dribs and drabs over 3 days and the total number of hours I spent were closer to 1 day than 2. You know how you'd feel if you worked 3 hours a day for 3 days: not like a superhero.

I don't know, this has just never happened with me.

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Re:Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more by newlog on Saturday December 06, 2014 @08:00AM (#8709133)

Thanks ;)

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Re:Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more by sarciszewski on Friday December 05, 2014 @10:42PM (#8708267)

You've put more than 1 standard 8-hour work day of effort into the project. If you round up, you have two days.

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Re:Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more by newlog on Saturday December 06, 2014 @08:01AM (#8709134)

Although it's too close to one day, that it might be a bit unethical to say it were two...

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Re:Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more by sarciszewski on Saturday December 06, 2014 @12:46PM (#8709681)

Then do that.

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Re:Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more by dminor on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:16PM (#8707958)

Thanks

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