Re: Contracting/Freelancing question: what is billable?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Anything that you and the client agree is billable, is.

>From the POV of a client:

I would be agreeable to a contractor billing a 
reasonable amount of learning curve time for an 
application that I had previously paid that contractor 
to research for me knowing that he/she had no 
expertise in it.  If the  contractor had previously 
presented him/herself as having expertise in the 
application, then no.  

If I told a contractor that his/her presence at an
on-site meeting was required, then billing travel
(time or mileage, not both) would be acceptable.
If the contractor chose to be present because it
facilitated the work being done but I did not require
it, then no.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracey Bean" <traceybean -at- verizon -dot- net>
> What I'm unsure about:
> 
> 1. Time spent learning Flare
> 2. Time spent learning CSS well enough to work with Flare
> 3. Time spent traveling to on-site meetings (over an hour each way;  
> hasn't happened yet, but we've talked about the possibility)
> 
> Is there a standard approach to travel time?

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