how to bill your clients

Billing Value, Not Hours 

Wonder if you’re billing your clients enough? Billing them the right way? Are you anxious about talking to clients about your invoices?  Or does it just feel like your whole invoicing process is a mess?

Join Freelancers Union and FreshBooks CEO and Co-Founder Mike McDerment for this online seminar, to learn about:

·         How to identify and quantify your value
·         Hourly billing vs. project-based billing
·         The benefits and value of project-based billing
·         Best practices when talking to your customers about billing rates and retainers
·         Organizing and managing your invoicing 
·         Deciding how much detail to include in your invoices
·         Making your invoicing look professional

Mike McDerment has helped thousands of professionals streamline their time tracking, invoices, and payment collection.  With lessons from his most successful customers, McDerment will show you how to manage your client relationships to get your fair share of the balance sheet.  In this online seminar, he’ll teach you positive ways to manage your invoicing conversations, and help you establish better invoicing practices.

Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. EST (4:00 - 5:30 p.m. PST)

Registration for this event has closed.  

The link to the online seminar will be emailed to all registrants at least one day prior to the event.   

The requirements for accessing the online seminar are available here.   


Mike McDerment is the CEO and Co-Founder of FreshBooks - the online invoicing and time tracking service for freelancers and service-based small businesses that CNET calls "more intelligent and more mature." FreshBooks has over 300,000 users and grew out of McDerment's need to invoice his clients at Anicon, an internet marketing consultancy he founded. McDerment has consulted with over 50 companies since 1999 to help them get more from the Internet. McDerment loves his work, and would rather be outdoors than inside.