Billable Hours: Where You Might Be Losing Money Without Realizing It as a Freelancer
When you’re a freelancer and you think about the money you’re losing, you tend to think of the big things: the client who doesn’t pay, the project that spirals out of control, the hours you underestimated. Everyone’s been there. But what’s cost me more over the years are two inconspicuous areas where money constantly trickles […]
Time tracking when something is always coming up
A freelancer’s day rarely goes the way you planned it over coffee. Mine usually starts calmly: a quick look at the calendar, timer on, off I go. And then life happens. Sometimes a Teams call comes in and a client wants to talk about some new social media thing. Sometimes I’m sitting at the agency […]
Why I built my own time tracker after more than 20 years of tracking time
Honestly, I’ve spent most of my working life fighting my time tracking rather than using it. I’ve been using some kind of tracking system for over twenty years — browser tools, downloaded apps, all of it. They all advertise the same things: statistics, charts, nice-looking graphs. But the one thing that matters most, most of […]