Answer by lon124 for Tracking hours you are working for clients
bretterer, you don't really seem to be asking about time tracking tools but about how to deal with lots of small requests coming in by email. For me, this is more of a productivity question.Here is my...
View ArticleAnswer by Carlo Borja for Tracking hours you are working for clients
Looking at your worklfow, I think a time tracking app like Time Doctor would work well for you. I understand why people would say you need to focus on one task/project at a time for maximum...
View ArticleAnswer by AdamRasheed for Tracking hours you are working for clients
As other's have mentioned, batching helps immensely. And since my field of work (UI Design and front-end development) hardly requires immediate responses, I'll set aside a time each day for every...
View ArticleAnswer by user4680 for Tracking hours you are working for clients
Anything below 5 minutes is not even worth thinking about, just answer the email and forget it. If you have a request that takes you long to investigate or test stuff, it is normal work and you charge...
View ArticleAnswer by UhlBelk for Tracking hours you are working for clients
Charging and tracking the "small" changes.Early on when freelance web-hosting was a hobby for me I would gladly make any small tweaks with no charge for the few clients I had since most of them were...
View ArticleAnswer by Neil Robertson for Tracking hours you are working for clients
As much as possible, I try to batch tasks rather than attend to tasks as they arrive. Ignoring emails apart from two or three times a day helps. If clients need to communicate with you urgently then...
View ArticleAnswer by Peter MV for Tracking hours you are working for clients
Those things like email replies are called "Advising" in freelancing world. Before you charge your client, make sure he understand that you are charging advising as well. You may charge him every...
View ArticleAnswer by Jonas Schubert Erlandsson for Tracking hours you are working for...
There are several time tracking tools that look at your actual activity on the computer (like Timing for Mac). These tools will normally let you sort activities into projects based on url, path or...
View ArticleAnswer by G. Stoynev for Tracking hours you are working for clients
Even if you don't bill for the little interruptions, it's only fair to track your time. I've found that having the discipline to jot down your time throughout the day is paying back in several waysYour...
View ArticleAnswer by MDMoore313 for Tracking hours you are working for clients
Most of the answers I've seen thus far address the time tracking question, so I'll address the email part of the question:I don't charge clients for email responses. I chalk that up to 'investment...
View ArticleAnswer by Chris Travers for Tracking hours you are working for clients
I approach things somewhat differently. I answer customers via email, guaranteed responses free of charge that take less than 15 min free of charge. My reasoning here is that this gives me a chance to...
View ArticleAnswer by Jeromy French for Tracking hours you are working for clients
I, too, have a 15 minute minimum charge, and I stick to it 85% of the time because nothing ever takes "just a minute", and interruptions come with attendant friction.I built a timekeeping/workflow...
View ArticleAnswer by guerrerocarlos for Tracking hours you are working for clients
You can start using time managing techniques like "Pomodoro" that will help you organize your time better, and enhance focus and concentration, plus making you have a list of all the tasks that you do...
View ArticleAnswer by Drew Poland for Tracking hours you are working for clients
Alternatively you could completely fire your hourly rate. It's a pain and I pretty much refuse to do it anymore unless the client is on retainer or specifically asks for it. Plus there's a good chance...
View ArticleAnswer by nialna2 for Tracking hours you are working for clients
Precise time tracking is just not possible in the way most of us work. The better you can do is :Track the time when you're focused on a project, and note down somewhere when you do little tasks on...
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When working through the day, I may work on many different projects. Web development is one of the freelancing jobs that I'm sure many people bounce around project to project, or maybe that is just me....
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