When you bid on your consulting projects do you bid by the hour or by the project? We have mostly done hourly work but have gotten some resistance from the customer and we were wondering how getting paid by the project would work.

Most of our projects are short term so we usually bill by the hour and it has worked fine for us.

We always bill by the project we want to work at our own pace and sometimes the clients view of pace is different than yours. It also makes it easier on the accounting end because you do not have to track every minute of your time.