billable hours
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- era4O40
I feel ya, man. Do you work for yourself or for another company that requires X billable hours/billing period?
We used to run into that situation a lot, but use things like application sales and licensing, hosting, recurring costs with mark-up (such as domain registration and SEO updates) to pad out the periods with low hours.
If you're into web work, this might be a way to help you too. When you launch sites, tell your clients that you can spend 1-5hrs/mo monitoring their SEO and making fixes where necessary. Then check listings on search engines, monitor key words, tweak changes to meta-data and h1/title/alt tags, work with directory services and listing sites, and provide templated responses to your clients with updates to show them of progress.
You can even use monthly Google Analytics mailers as part of your templates to show the research and results. This proves to clients that your regular 1-5hrs of (billable) work is worthwhile.
If you do print or identity design, well, sorry, I can't help you there. We have issues in that department as well.
Anyway, good luck!