So I had an experience this week with a new contractor. I had a project that was running behind schedule, because my go-to contractor was not available to put forth any hours.
Long story short: the new contractor did an amazing job. The quality of work was pretty good, but the best part was she built this entire site in like 8 hours of billable work. Including designing it.
Sure, she’s more expensive than most I’ve worked with by a long-shot. But that’s just the hourly rate.
I would have expected this to take something like 20 hours for another contractor. But instead it was only 8. So not only will I pay her less overall than others, it also came through much, much more quickly.
It makes me realize that I’ve only experienced a handful of people to work with me. And having two of them resign in a short time frame put a bad taste in my mouth.
That was one of the biggest reasons I sort of didn’t want to build websites anymore!
But with a contractor like the one I’m now working with… The sky is the limit! She could literally be putting in only 20 hours per week for me and we could be pumping out 6-8 websites every month.
So now I’m quite interested in actually taking on more of these projects. I think we could bust through them super quickly and it would be mostly profit. And she would be happy because she’s making good money.
Moral of the story: maybe I need to put more thought into what type of work we want to keep doing, and I shouldn’t write-off these types of projects. There are always great contractors and employees out there, you just have to find them!