Honestly, I used to be all about hourly billing. Thought it was the only fair way. Then I took on a logo job for a bakery in Austin that took 22 hours because they kept changing colors. I made like $11 an hour after revisions. That one job convinced me to try flat rates, and now my income is way more stable during slow months, even if the work is smaller. Has anyone else seen a big shift in their cash flow after making this change?
Last February when work was dead I dropped $180 on some online course promising to help freelancers stay busy. It was just fancy-priced checklists and a guy repeating stuff from old blog posts. I got maybe two useful tips out of 40 videos, and one of them was basically "email people more." Anyone else get suckered into buying something shiny during a slow month?
I landed two small editing gigs out of nowhere, both from old clients I hadn’t heard from since January. Made $450 in six hours, which usually takes me a week in the slow season. Anyone else get random good days when everything feels dead?