Lazy man’s business model

I’m like, a super lazy dude.

If there’s a quicker way of doing something, I’ll probably find it.

A good portion of my life is disorganised. Lazy people like me tend to grab piles of clothes and stuff the tshirts on the tshirt shelf, the socks in the sock drawer, and to hell with folding and pairing.

Obviously, this means I burn more time finding a matching pair of socks – I know this logically, but my brain hasn’t learned the lesson yet.

On the flip side, work-wise, I think the laziness pays off in spades.

Not long ago, I had an hourly rate and an “ask for a quote” pricing model, which I understand is the norm for a lot of folks.

It meant I was doing a lot of estimates, proposals, guessing, and thanks to some of that, invoicing. I spent whole chunks of most days doing something on this list.

Glad as I am that it all worked out, I felt reeeaaaallllly weighed down by it all.

So much so that I mostly switched off services I could only offer with a running time clock, then culled what I wanted to continue offering, and set fixed prices for them.

On top of that, everything now has an instant payment link (via Stripe), so all in, the estimates, proposals, guessing and invoicing have essentially gone away.

I had to be uncomfortably un-lazy to get those things set up, and they all need constant monitoring, but geez would I rather do that than write another proposal.