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Discussion on: Retainer advice

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Dave Smyth

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.