The business half of the job, explained.
The work you were hired for is the part you already know. These are the parts around it: what a CRM is for, what a day of your time actually costs, and where money quietly goes missing between winning a job and getting paid for it.
What is a CRM, and do you need one?
What the three letters mean, what a CRM actually holds, and why nearly every one on the market assumes somebody else will deliver the work.
Read the guideCRM or project management tool?
One answers who might pay you. The other answers what is due Thursday. What falls into the seam between them, and when you genuinely need both.
Read the guideWho actually needs time tracking?
Three reasons to track hours, only one of which needs precision. What to record, what to skip, and the one number worth watching.
Read the guideHow to set your hourly rate
Work backwards from what you need to earn, through the days you can actually bill. With the arithmetic, done properly, on real numbers.
Read the guideFrom the first inquiry to the paid invoice
Every job makes the same seven steps and six handoffs. What gets dropped at each one, and what it costs when it does.
Read the guideIs your project actually profitable?
Revenue is not profit. The three numbers that give you the margin, and the fourth one that decides more than all of them.
Read the guideBilling expenses back to a client
The small costs that quietly become yours. Agree it, keep the evidence, get it onto the invoice before the project closes.
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