Charge for meeting time?
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Yes. Why?
1) It's time you're committing to the client and their project. Time you could be spending on other clients, or drumming up new business;
2) It's counted as productive time used to move a project forward (regardless of if there's progress or not);
3) It falls under project/account management, which is an absolutely billable service.Look at it this way: if you're in an agency, and you have a meeting about a project — regardless of whether it's an internal team meeting, or a client meeting — you then enter the time in your agency's time reporting system. The agency then bills that time to the client, because it's time and resources committed to that project/client.
What's good for agencies is good for you. Don't sell yourself short; act like the business you are.
- That said, project and account management should ideal be worked into your initial cost estimate.Continuity