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I've been considering setting up my website to be nothing but a work calendar, with empty blocks the visitor can buy. I'd have control to shut down unbought blocks if I want free time. I'd have some copy on what I do best, but essentially the customer could buy my time for anything they want, and could buy it right away.

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I don't think customers want to buy YOUR time. They want to buy THEIR results for THEIR business with as less of your time as possible.

Depends on the service. Sometimes the service explicitly is my time. Tutoring, for example, or job candidate interviews. I didn't mention this in my first post, but I think I would emphasize that you're explicitly buying time with me, i.e. we'd be on Skype together, working through something. Pair programming for hire!

The benefit is never just time it's whatever is the outcome of how you spend your time. Id read the article

You would? Go ahead then.

Still a good idea, instead of your service being some ethereal product that they don't really understand, if you do it the way wptheory does it where you have one day dedicated to the customer and they can buy out that day, they'll know exactly when to expect a return, will know exactly when they can talk to you, and roughly know how much it will cost.

As a customer, I would like to know what are you doing exactly and how much time do you need to do it (and, so, how much will you charge me for doing what I want).

A calendar does this.

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