Know What Every Piece of Content Really Costs.
Track production time, manage sponsor deliverables, and understand your true hourly rate — so you can price your content work profitably.
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Built specifically to solve the headaches of running a freelance business.
Production Time Tracking
Track time across content phases — scripting, filming, editing, promotion. Know where your production hours actually go.
Sponsor & Client Management
Manage brand deals and client relationships with full profiles and billing info. Keep every sponsorship organized.
Content Profitability Analysis
Know your real cost per video, episode, or article — and price accordingly. Data-driven content business decisions.
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Content Production Tracking
Track every phase of content creation. Phase tagging, concurrent timers, and session notes for creative decisions.
Client & Sponsor Management
Manage brand relationships in one place. Client profiles, project tracking, retainer management, and billing history.
Profitability Reporting
Understand your real content economics. Time per piece, earnings by client, and production cost analysis.
In depth
How content creators use TimerMVP to price their work by the piece
Content work is usually paid by the piece or by the month, so the hourly picture stays hidden. A sponsored video, a blog post, or a month of social content can take two hours or twenty. Creators and freelance writers use TimerMVP to measure what each piece costs them, then price the next deal with that number in hand.
How do I calculate my effective hourly rate per piece of content?
Track every session that goes into a piece: research, scripting, recording, editing, revisions, and the back and forth with the client. Then divide the fee by the total. Say a sponsored video pays $1,200 and took 16 hours from brief to final cut. That is $75 an hour.
Set paid pieces up as ad hoc projects with an amount and a due date, and track sessions against them. Tag each session by phase, such as #script, #edit, or #revisions. The dashboard shows the effective hourly rate per client, and a report filtered by tag shows which phase is eating the most time.
Are content retainers better than one-off pieces?
It depends on the client, and your data can tell you. A monthly content retainer gives you predictable income, but the number of pieces and revisions can drift. One-off pieces pay more per piece but require more selling.
TimerMVP handles both. Retainers have a monthly amount and start and end dates. One-offs are ad hoc projects. The income page splits your income into retainer, ad hoc, and hourly, and compares actual to projected. Put that next to each client's effective rate and you can see which arrangement actually pays you better for your time.
- Retainers with monthly amounts and dates
- One-off pieces as ad hoc projects with due dates
- Income split by retainer, ad hoc, and hourly
- Effective rate per client for a fair comparison
How do content creators plan a production calendar?
The weekly planner runs Monday to Sunday. List each piece in the week it needs to move forward. Anything you do not finish carries forward with an age pill, amber at seven days and red at fourteen, so a draft that keeps sliding is easy to spot.
Content often waits on someone else: brand approval, a guest's recording, or final assets. Type a greater-than sign before the name, like >Jordan, to mark the item as waiting on that person. It drops out of your weekly score. The Friday week review shows what published, what moved, and what is still waiting.
How much time do revisions add to a sponsored post?
More than most creators expect, and it rarely shows up in the rate. Tag revision sessions with #revisions. After a few sponsored deals, run a report filtered by that tag and client. If one brand averages three hours of revisions per piece and another averages twenty minutes, you know who to charge more and what to put in the next contract.
TimerMVP includes contracts with e-signatures, so you can write revision limits into the agreement and have the brand sign it before work starts.
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