John Burns - 1/13/2025 05:44

Don't charge too little. You will get customers you don't really want.

No less than 50 per hour if I was doing it. I got that for computer consulting in the mid-late 80's. When I went from 25 to 50 (farm operation growing and less time available) I figured I would lose all my customers and that was ok. I lost half, got rid of the pia's, and the ones that really needed my services didn't blink an eye. This was 40 years ago.

Edit: one caveat. I did not charge my customers for my education. Say it took me three hours to solve a problem but a lot of it was research about something new that I hadn't already learned. I might charge them one or two hours. I charged them for what I knew and could help them. Maybe why my best customers stayed with me till a couple years later when the farm just grew where I didn't have the time.