“We tend to not bill much based on professional hours. We work much more on fixed contracts than we ever did before. But we still keep the time so we can answer those questions”
The Pro Serv Podcast: Grow, Scale, and Exit a Boutique Professional Services Firm · Scaling Is Subtraction: What the Founder Has to Stop Doing with Todd Rapp | Episode 275
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Shifted from billing by professional hours to primarily using fixed-price contracts while still tracking time internally
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