Ditching Hourly

Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about how he grew his mailing list and podcast audiences to 100k+ each and how he got started making money without offering high-ticket services.  Side Hustle Nation   The Side Hustle Show Custom Playlist   http://hustle.show https://twitter.com/nloper https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickloper/ (Additional show notes generated by Po...

Canyon Trail founder Floyd May joined me on Ditching Hourly to describe his “shares” pricing model for software development. Floyd’s Links: https://canyon-trail.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/floyd-may/ ---- Do you have questions about how to improve your business? Things like: Value pricing your work instead of billing for your time? Positioning yourself as the go-to person in your space? Produ...

Longtime software developer Tim Burris joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about his transition from annual salary to hourly billing to fixed pricing and the positive effects the transition had on his day-to-day. Pretty good AI summary: In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Tim Burriss about his journey from being a software developer to running a product development department a...

Steve Folland, creator of the Being Freelance podcast and Doing it for the Kids podcast, joined me on Ditching Hourly to chat about his journey into freelancing, organic business growth, and tips for getting into the business mindset. Chapters: (0:00:00) - The Freelance Journey of Steve Folland (0:05:00) - Organic Growth of a Freelance Business (0:15:52) - Freelancing for Beginners (0:20:26) - Get...

Angular expert Alain Chautard joined me on Ditching Hourly to share the novel ways he escaped the trap of trading time for money by packaging and pricing his platform expertise. Alain's Bio Alain is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, Angular, and Google Maps. His daily mission is to help development teams adopt Angular and build at scale with the framework. He has taught front-end deve...

Ex-Googler Kartick Vaddadi joined me on Ditching Hourly to brainstorm which of his offerings might be most compelling and to find ways to increase the number of leads flowing into his business. Kartick’s Links Website: https://kartick.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ConsultingCTO ---- Do you have questions about how to improve your business? Things like: Value pricing your work instead of bi...

This week I am joined by Ed Gandia. Ed is the co-author of The Wealthy Freelancer, the host of the High-Income Business Writing podcast, and a coach to ambitious writers and copywriters who want to earn more in less time doing work they love for better clients. As you can probably tell from this bio, Ed and I are very much kindred spirits, so this episode is a bit different than most. Instead of m...

Legal operations advisor and law professor Mitch Kowalski joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about innovation in the legal profession, including alternatives to hourly billing. Talking Points The history of hourly billing in the legal profession Transparency in pricing (and why hourly billing isn't transparent at all) The perverse incentives of hourly billing Why billing hourly short changes you...

Sew Heidi is a business coach and educator who helps freelance fashion designers build better businesses. She joined me on Ditching Hourly to compare notes on the similarities and differences between freelancing in fashion vs. freelancing in software. Spoiler alert: There was a lot more in common than you might expect. Episode Summary In this episode, we discuss the journey of fashion freelancing,...

Jason Lengstorf joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about the novel way he's using his generalist web skills to create value, have fun, and make a living. Jason's Bio: Jason Lengstorf is the host of Learn With Jason , a web generalist and the undefeated smashburger champ. A creative technologist and educator, Jason helps tech companies connect with developer communities through better devrel stra...

Home studio architect and author Junaid Ahmed joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about why it's important to look and sound your best on camera, how to level up your home studio without spending a lot of time or money, and the novel approach he took to writing and publishing his new book, Mastering iPhone Video Production. Junaid's Bio: Junaid Ahmed is a Home Studio Architect, podcast host, and...

Jeff Doolittle is a software architect, transformational leader, and se-radio.net host who’s on a mission to make good software professionals great. Jeff joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about his journey from a web dev working for free pizza to an in-demand software architect. Along the way, we talked about the importance of strategy, systems thinking as applied to software, and finding a bal...

In-demand Python teacher Reuven Lerner joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about building a software training business in 2023. Reuven's links: - https://lerner.co.il , Reuven's main site - https://BetterDevelopersWeekly.com/ , Reuven's Python + software engineering list - https://TrainerWeekly.com , Reuven's newsletter about training - And Reuven frequently posts to Twitter and LinkedIn if peopl...

Landscape architect Brandon Reed joined me on Ditching Hourly to discuss how ditching hourly billing, offering fixed price options, and niching down transformed his firm. Brandon's Links: Website LinkedIn Instagram ---- Do you have questions about how to improve your business? Things like: Value pricing your work instead of billing for your time? Positioning yourself as the go-to person in your sp...

CPA Erica Goode joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about how coaches and consultants should think about inflation, recession, cash flow, and taxes. Erica's Bio: Erica Goode, CPA owns an accounting firm serving coaches and consultants through accounting and CFO services. Erica's Newsletter: https://www.ericagoode.com/newsletter-signup Erica's Podcast:  Coaches, Consultants, and Money (available e...

Mitch Herrema of Bulb Digital joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about his experience selling high-ticket productized services. Mitch's links:  Website Twitter ---- Do you have questions about how to improve your business? Things like: Value pricing your work instead of billing for your time? Positioning yourself as the go-to person in your space? Productizing your services so you never have to...

Erin Balsa of Haus of Bold joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about the dramatic success she experienced once switching to my 5-page proposal template. NOTE: The audio on this episode is a little rough, but Erin shared a ton of valuable insights, so I wanted to release it anyway. I've included an auto-generated transcript for this episode if you'd prefer to read it.  Erin's Links: Haus of Bold T...

Vikram Shetty of 73bit.com joined for a coaching call on Ditching Hourly to help clarify the difference between the end user, target market, and ideal buyer for his sustainability benchmarking SaaS product. Vikram's links: https://73bit.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikramshettyc/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sustainability-scores/id1575726960 ---- Do you have questions about how to im...

Proprietor of Strohmeyer Law, John Strohmeyer, joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about why he left a big hourly law firm to start his own practice and how he packages and sells fixed-fee legal services to avoid trading time for money.  John's bio: John Strohmeyer is the proprietor of Strohmeyer Law PLLC in Houston, where he guides individuals through the maze of estate planning, tax, and probat...

The CPA Savior, Geraldine Carter, joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about her journey from custom coaching to productized services and how it opened up a path to seven figures for her solo business. About Geraldine Geraldine Carter is a business coach for overworked CPAs who need help getting off the tax hamster wheel. Her clients routinely generate $250K of new annual recurring revenue within...

QA Consultant Preshant Bellad joined me on Ditching Hourly to discuss value pricing for monthly QA services.  Jonathan,  We perform ongoing QA activities like testing, creating automated tests, breaking the app, etc We do the above for requirements that are planned per 2 weeks iteration/sprint For this client, I have been billing an average of 200 hours per month based on the features to test Some...

Founder of Mimiran, Reuben Swartz, joined me on Ditching Hourly to talk about the unique client relationship management needs of solo consultants and shared the novel approaches he took when building his “anti-CRM”. Reuben’s LinkedIn Mimiran CRM Jonathan on Reuben’s Podcast ---- Do you have questions about how to improve your business? Things like: Value pricing your work instead of billing for yo...

Serverless expert Paul Swail joined me on Ditching Hourly to share how he uses paid diagnostic engagements to help land large projects without the pressure of conducting a single sales interview.  Paul's Links: https://serverlessfirst.com/ https://twitter.com/paulswail ---- Do you have questions about how to improve your business? Things like: Value pricing your work instead of billing for your ti...

Dr. Jason Troyer joined me on Ditching Hourly to share the details of his journey from tenured academic to authority entrepreneur.  Jason’s Links: https://www.jasontroyer.com/ https://www.griefplan.com/ ---- Do you have questions about how to improve your business? Things like: Value pricing your work instead of billing for your time? Positioning yourself as the go-to person in your space? Product...

Dre Beltrami returns to Ditching Hourly to drop her patented iconoclastic worldviews. This time around we talk about Google+, Pinterest, search vs feed, stealing longtail keywords, and for the love of god, just shutting up and listening.  Dre's links: thesolopreneursociety.com ---- Do you have questions about how to improve your business? Things like: Value pricing your work instead of billing for...