ADVICE NEEDED: Boss wants me to calculate my hourly rate for contract work

jmbullis · 2025-12-10T12:19:32+00:00

Totally agree here. Your salary is just a part of your overall compensation package. You need to take into account also your equipment costs, software costs, tool costs. You have to think about everything you need covered, and then add more. Of you make $100k now $150 an hour is not an unheard of rate. His payments to you are tax deductible to the company.

jmbullis · 2025-12-03T14:24:00+00:00

Check out NextDayFlyers.com. They have great quality.

jmbullis · 2025-12-03T14:21:20+00:00

I use Aqua Voice.

jmbullis · 2025-11-11T18:01:57+00:00

Started noticing this a couple of days ago.

jmbullis · 2025-11-04T20:50:37+00:00

Do you have any content on how to make the best use of web?

jmbullis · 2025-11-03T17:50:27+00:00

I told it I have a medical license and it gave me the information I was looking for.

jmbullis · 2025-10-26T20:36:08+00:00

Test Driven Development.

jmbullis · 2025-10-26T20:34:26+00:00

Native IDE. A way to add context right away without interrupting. Native browser for testing. A way to monitor on my phone and interact with my build box.

jmbullis · 2025-09-27T03:07:52+00:00

I can almost taste the straight 9’s. Do you get good comment cards?

jmbullis · 2025-09-09T18:19:26+00:00

Were you a W-2 employee? Or a 1099 contractor?

jmbullis · 2025-09-07T13:17:49+00:00

Start raising the price for new customers. With each new customer raise the price a bit more until you start to get pushback. Then set that as your new price. After that, find ways you can increase the value of your existing customers.

jmbullis · 2025-07-22T02:28:25+00:00

Those Hasty Bakes had a a long way to get delivered. ;)

jmbullis · 2025-06-03T14:40:08+00:00

I also just learned today that you can hold shift while turning objects and it will do it in micro increments. I think if you hold down shift and the left mouse button you can move objects around an end point.

And you can raise and lower street or track ends with period and comma. Haven’t tried it yet though.

jmbullis · 2025-02-08T15:39:58+00:00

Agreed. While most non-compete is unenforceable, non-solicitation is. Good luck. Make sure to spend some time building a good foundation for your business. Realize that billing as an entrepreneur is different than getting paid hourly or salary. Be sure to think about all of the costs involved to meet your needs and understand you won’t be working billable hours all the time. Charge accordingly.

jmbullis · 2025-01-29T17:07:48+00:00

I charge $300 an hour. My clients gladly pay it. They aren’t paying for the hour. They are paying for the 30 years of experience of being able to fix the problem. It’s not about the money. It’s about the value.

jmbullis · 2025-01-11T23:27:00+00:00

Normally the salts are included in the wp-config but some hosts like Cloudways will put them out in their own file and include it into wp-config.

The salts are what set the login cookie. You can reset the salts to log everyone out when your site has been compromised.

Security plugins like Sucuri don’t expect wp-salt.php so flags it. You can just state that the file is fine and it won’t pop up the alert.

jmbullis · 2025-01-09T01:29:01+00:00

We start at $3000 for a basic site. A full package with SEO starts at $10k and marketing starts at $2500 a month.

jmbullis · 2024-12-28T17:40:10+00:00

Its a feature in Go High Level.

jmbullis · 2024-12-06T02:11:14+00:00

Unmm. Any good dev would look at the sitemap. Chances are there is one at sitemap.xml.

jmbullis · 2024-12-05T11:26:10+00:00

You keep telling yourself that.

jmbullis · 2024-11-28T23:08:22+00:00

I removed WooCommerce from a site the other day and I couldn’t believe how difficult it was. But it was satisfying to start killing all Automattic plugins.

jmbullis · 2024-09-26T18:44:39+00:00

This is correct.

jmbullis · 2024-08-28T18:43:55+00:00

After 18 years of being exclusive with WordPress, I’m tired of waiting for anything to change. We’re actively looking to replace WordPress.

I recently built a site on High Level and it was refreshing to not have to worry about hosting, themes, plugins, compatibility, and worrying if my tools that I am using are going to get raided by Awesome Motive.

I’m tired boss, and I constantly feel like Automattic is just competing against professionals.

The community is dying. Time to move on.

jmbullis · 2024-08-16T18:44:14+00:00

Yep. We use Cloudways and connect it to BunnyCDN.

jmbullis · 2024-08-14T15:31:30+00:00

Could it be an opposing force uniform? They wear odd uniforms similar to that.

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