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Making a living making website

Talk given at #tboBath on what we sell and how we value it

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July 02, 2014
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Transcript

  1. Making a living making websites Cole Henley @cole007

  2. What do you sell?

  3. Time

  4. “Most of us are terrible at estimating time” bit.ly/bath-biz-rachel

  5. Track

  6. Pomodoro

  7. Work-in-progress

  8. Kanban

  9. Momentum

  10. Productivity

  11. Capacity

  12. How do you value your time?

  13. What do you need?

  14. 365

  15. Time for business

  16. Time to learn

  17. “It only took you a second to draw it!”

  18. Time off

  19. 52 * 5 = 260 - 26 (10%) = 234

    - 26 (10%) = 208 - 26 (10%) = 182 - 5 (2%) = 177

  20. 365 177

  21. What to charge?

  22. bit.ly/bath-biz-rates

  23. What do you want?

  24. bit.ly/bath-biz-rates Tools and Resources bit.ly/bath-biz-freeagent bit.ly/bath-biz-relief @cole007 bit.ly/bath-biz-rachel