Business The Secret to Better Proposals: Know Which Question to Answer Whether your prospect is questioning the need for custom software or evaluating developers, discover how to craft proposals that speak directly to their concerns.
Business I Paid $600,000 per Hour for LASIK Eye Surgery And that's why ophthalmologists don't bill by the hour.
Business Software Pricing Battle Royale Hourly Billing vs. Value-Based Pricing: What's the morally right way to bill for software development? Two software business superheroes face off.
Business Choosing and Executing a Strategy: A 4-Step Approach Forget the military analogies. What do strategy, operations, and tactics look like inside a software development company?
Business Tactics vs. Operations vs. Strategy Want to build a successful long-term business? Take the time to understand these concepts (and apply them in the right order!).
Business Positioning: What You Need to Know to Run an Access Business The clearer you are about who you don't work with, the more likely you are to attract those you do.
Business Profit Centers vs. Cost Centers Both impact a company's net profits, but one tends to be a better fit for most Microsoft Access projects.
Business The Worst Way to Price Software Development Work There are several ways to price software development work, each with its own pros and cons. But there is one option with nothing but cons.
Business Productized Services: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Products and Services If you don't relish the thought of running sales meetings and writing proposals, productized services may be a good fit for you.
Business Challenges in Estimating Software Development: Complicated vs. Complex Processes In software development, some processes are easier to estimate than others. Whether the process is complex or complicated has a profound impact on estimate reliability.
Business The Secret to a Profitable Career as an Access Consultant It may not be flashy, but it is effective.
Business Reader Question: How Do I Make Value-Based Pricing Work? Value-based pricing is not a synonym for fixed-bid pricing. To make it work, you need to focus on the business value you can generate for the client.
Business The Value Matrix: A Framework for Prioritizing Development Software developers are content writing great applications, but consultants understand the importance of delivering big business impact.
Business Impact vs. Effort: A Simple Formula for Estimating ROI There are two variables that determine the financial success of a software project. You only control one.
Business Sole Proprietorship vs. Partnership vs. LLC vs. S Corp. vs. C Corp. What's the best type of business for you? It depends on where you're at on your journey.
Business The Most Important Rule in Client Contracts This rule can be the difference between project success and project failure; joy and misery; profit and loss.
Business Shared Reports in Clockify Never waste time preparing a detailed list of hours for your clients again using this handy feature from Clockify.
Business Comparative Advantage One person can be more productive than another in every way, and yet, by trading freely with each other, both sides can come out ahead.
Business Level Billing: A More Predictable Way to Bill Hourly If you bill by the hour, you probably have clients with whiplash as their invoices yo-yo from month to month. Provide them predictability with level billing.
Business The Hour-Tracking Journey From Palm Pilots to Google Sheets to Clockify, I take a trip down hour-tracking memory lane.
Business Configuring a Send-Only Email Address in Outlook 2019 How to add an account in Outlook 2019 where the user name is NOT the same as the email address.
Business Manage Email Addresses for Multiple Domains with One Gmail Account Using Opalstack Some practical advice on how to configure email addresses for multiple domains so that you can still send and receive from a single Gmail account.
Business Prices vs. Estimates (And How to Educate Your Clients on the Difference) A price is a fixed amount. An estimate is just a guess. But try telling that to an angry client at the end of an over-budget project. There's a better way.
Business How Access Developers Can Charge Their Existing Clients More (Without Feeling Guilty) When you offer only a single option, a proposal is an ultimatum. Add in some monopoly power, and that proposal can start to feel like extortion.