by Jason Long | Apr 3, 2020 | Clients, Contracts, How To, Legal, Management, Running a Business
With most jobs, it’s simple: You work. You get paid. But when you’re running a business and doing client work, “simple” isn’t so simple. There are clients out there who would try to stiff you. Not many, but they do exist. And a lot of...
by Jason Long | Feb 26, 2020 | How To, Proposals, Running a Business, Sales, Scoping
There are a lot of elements involved in building and launching a SaaS system. One of the very first steps, though, can be, as Bugs would say, “a doozy”. The Initial Estimate This is where you either start off on the right foot or step on the hidden trap...
by Jason Long | Feb 26, 2020 | blog, Clients, How To, New Features, News, Scoping, Templates, Top Blog Posts
Welcome to BrainLeaf! If you’ve looked around the site and its features and decided that you need a guidebook…well, here it is! Here, we’re going to go over how to run through a project, start-to-finish, using a WordPress website scope of work as an...
by Jason Long | Nov 8, 2019 | How To, Scoping
How far off are you on your estimates? Ten percent? Fifty percent? Two-hundred percent? Do you know? I remember the last straw for me before we started building BrainLeaf. A developer had given us an estimate of 50 hours to complete a feature set, but 400 hours later...
by Jason Long | May 14, 2019 | How To, Management, Pricing, Scoping
People forget things. It’s just a fact of life. Companies aren’t immune to this, either. At their core, all companies, including digital agencies, are all people-centric operations. A high-tech focus doesn’t make them infallible. In fact, this can be...
by Jason Long | Apr 22, 2019 | How To, Scoping, Templates, Web Design
The WordPress Website Scope of Work Deep Dive. Naturally, we’re going to be delving into how to assemble this within our system, and we’ve put a template together for you to get started with here. Using this template as our example, we’ll walk...
