Ben Burnsby MrBenBurns

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Profitability

The Project

Is this a completed project or are you pricing new work?

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Costs

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How much the business spends every working hour to keep going, your pay and overhead included. This is money out, not a rate you charge. Do not know it? Work out your burn rate.
Work out your burn rate

The one idea I come back to more than any other: you are not your business. It has to pay you and cover its own bills before a dollar of it counts as profit. So start with what you genuinely need to live, then play with paying yourself more and watch what it really takes.

You, personally

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The bare minimum to live on: rent or mortgage, food, utilities, insurance. Paid to you like a paycheck.
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Optional, and this is the fun one. What if you wanted an extra $10,000 a month? How would it impact your numbers? Nudge it and watch your rate move.

The business

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Rent, software, subscriptions, insurance. The bills that show up whether or not you work.
The hours you could actually bill a client, not every hour at your desk. Most full-time solo creatives land between 80 and 120 billable hours per month.

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Think about freelancers, materials, stock, fonts, ad spend, processing fees. Costs that exist only because you took this project on. Break it down.
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Fill in what you charged, your hours, and the hourly burn rate, and we'll calculate profitability here.

Profit on this project

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What your business made per hour on this project
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Overhead coststhe hourly burn rate, times your hours
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