From Fract
Thoughts on billing, fractional work, and building in public.
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Before You Send That Invoice: A 10-Minute Billing Audit
A quick end-of-month checklist to make sure you've captured everything before you hit send. Most consultants skip this. Most consultants leave money behind.
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Timers Are the Wrong Way to Track Professional Time
Starting and stopping a timer while you work is fundamentally mismatched with how professional work actually happens. There's a better model.
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The Two Weeks That Changed How I Think About Billing
Leslie Bradshaw thought she knew roughly how many hours she was working. Then she started tracking. The numbers were not what she expected.
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Sixes Is Now Fract
The app has a new name. Here's why we changed it, how we got to Fract, and what stayed exactly the same.
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Why Lawyers Bill in 6-Minute Increments (And Why You Should Too)
The 0.1-hour billing increment has been the professional services standard for 50 years. Here's why it exists, why most fractional workers have never heard of it, and why it's the right way to track your time.
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The Fractional Professional's Guide to Tracking Billable Hours
A practical guide to capturing every billable hour when you work across multiple clients. What to track, how often, and how to stop losing money to the gap between when work happens and when you log it.