Some reasoning for switching away from hourly billing:

- Less time spent tracking hours

- Less risk of client quibbling about time spent on each task

- Disassociation from hourly rates (e.g. a large client may pay $20K a week for an important project, whereas people may balk at a $500-1000 equivalent hourly rate)

- More likelihood of working on larger, more important projects (less risk of the project falling apart, not getting paid, etc)

A daily rate will limit your client pool, but in a good way: bigger, more serious, and richer companies. A weekly rate will do this even more-so. But if you can reach the big fish and convince them of your value, more lucrative.

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