I like the idea of working on retainer, get a couple clients paying monthly, and then other little one-off projects sprinkled in between basically giving yourself a salary and monthly bonuses.
With your retainer work, did you find more of it was fixing bugs or things in work you'd already done, or they want more new work/content out of you every month?
It was generally continual iteration and small fixes/changes. When I set-up I wasn’t sure about the best way to approach that, hence the ad-hoc hourly rate.
Now I’d either quote for each piece of work and/or require a fixed-rate block of time to fix other things.
I generally prefer to work on bigger stuff, though. Small fixes can be disruptive which also makes it difficult for the monetary value of the work to meet the value of the disruption.
Constantly quoting small jobs can be uncomfortable as well. I feel like I’d need to batch them all into a day’s work or only do that type of work.
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I like the idea of working on retainer, get a couple clients paying monthly, and then other little one-off projects sprinkled in between basically giving yourself a salary and monthly bonuses.
With your retainer work, did you find more of it was fixing bugs or things in work you'd already done, or they want more new work/content out of you every month?
It was generally continual iteration and small fixes/changes. When I set-up I wasn’t sure about the best way to approach that, hence the ad-hoc hourly rate.
Now I’d either quote for each piece of work and/or require a fixed-rate block of time to fix other things.
I generally prefer to work on bigger stuff, though. Small fixes can be disruptive which also makes it difficult for the monetary value of the work to meet the value of the disruption.
Constantly quoting small jobs can be uncomfortable as well. I feel like I’d need to batch them all into a day’s work or only do that type of work.