If it hasn't already, charging by the hour is going to kill the growth of your business. There are a few things wrong with the "time for money" approach: 1. It implies the product you're selling is your time, it's not (if anything, you're selling them their time). The product you're selling is a solution to a problem. It doesn't matter how long it takes you to get the job done. In fact, you should be rewarded for the expediency your expertise brings. With hourly billing you're punished for efficiency. 2. At some point it just gets ridiculous. If you want to make $20k for something that's going to take you 2 hours of dedicated effort, are you going to quote $10k/hr, or just a flat project fee? 3. It doesn't establish you as a strategic partner. While you're working with a client, you essentially want to be a business partner for rent. By charging hourly, you make yourself an employee for rent. Over the last 2 or so years of making this content I've encountered countless "reasons" why project pricing doesn't work for a particular freelancer's particular industry and I've been able to negate each of them. Ultimately, the challenge is identifying your value to a project and accumulating the experience that allows you to forecast how big a project is actually going to be. You gotta put in the work to understand this pricing model, but your business will thank you for it. #freelancer #TalkToClients #freelancing #selfemployed