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That client who insisted on hourly updates billed me for 12 hours of 'meetings'
Had this guy with a small ecommerce site, thought I was padding hours. So he demands a daily call at 10am sharp to 'review progress'. Then after the call he'd send emails asking for clarifications from the call. After 3 weeks of this I checked my time logs. I had spent 12 hours just in meetings and follow ups for a project that was supposed to take 30 total. Dude was basically making his own delays. Anyone else deal with clients who micromanage so hard they kill their own budget?
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white.keith1d ago
Bill them for the calls as "project management" instead.
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the_hayden1d ago
You'd probably get away with it too, as long as you don't spell "project management" wrong on the invoice.
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shanes661d ago
Actually the client might have a point here. If you're charging hourly for "meetings" that's literally what you're doing, meeting and billing. You signed up for the daily call, you took the job knowing the terms, so maybe the real problem is you didn't set proper boundaries upfront about what counts as working time.
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