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Consulting pitches are built to be convincing. Five checks, and the documents behind them, that separate a firm that can do the work from one that can describe it.
Small jobs carry almost the same fixed costs as big ones. Here is how hourly, minimum-plus-hourly, and flat-rate pricing each handle that, and which one holds up.
Continue reading Pricing a Two Hour Repair Call Three Ways, and Which One Stops Losing Money
Utilities and big landlords handle overhanging limbs and disputed lines hundreds of times a year. The habits that make that work are mostly free to copy.
Continue reading Your Neighbor's Tree, Your Roof. The File a Utility Opens Before It Touches a Limb
The most expensive fraud a household is likely to meet arrives as a routine message from somebody they have been corresponding with for weeks.
Continue reading The Message That Changes the Wiring Instructions: Why It Arrives on Closing Day
A funeral bill is a stack of separate decisions, not one price. Here is how to tell the required line from the four that are yours to accept or refuse.
Continue reading Reading a Funeral Bill Line by Line, and Which Five Lines You Can Actually Decline
Most small operations know the total for the year and nothing about which work produced it. The difference between those two facts is usually an entire category of job.
Continue reading Which Jobs Actually Made Money Last Year? A Costing Sheet Built in One Evening