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 | 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...
by Jason Long | Mar 6, 2019 | How To, Management, Pricing, Scoping
How do you bill your clients? Your rate and rate structure determine how you do a sale and how much money you make. Make sure you understand the different ways you can set up your rates and rate structures to maximize profit as well as the value you can provide to...
by Jason Long | Feb 27, 2019 | Clients, Sales, Scoping
Up today, scope creep and expectation management! This is something that I learned the hard way, the really, really, really hard way, and it’s really the main reason we ended up building BrainLeaf. The lesson here is that when you don’t have a scope...