Reddit reviews Managing The Professional Service Firm

I notice that this blog post is largely a funnel for a landing page to drive people to your consulting services. In particular:

> After 8 years of struggling, I now work a lot less, make 5-10x more per hour, and I work with clients I love. I'm now sharing how you can do this too.

Over the past five years I turned a freelance web dev career into a 15 person consulting firm that does about $2MM/yr. Because of that I can plainly see that your claims don't really pass the sniff test. Your company's LinkedIn page tells me that you're self-employed. E.g., you essentially own a job (rather than a business), because you don't have staff to do the actual billable work.

A professional services firm absolutely requires staff to be able to scale. Here is an awesome article that summarizes why. This message is also drilled home in much greater detail in the bible of PS management: "Managing the Professional Service Firm."

Even a moderately successful web dev can command at least $60/hr. There's no way in hell you're getting $300-600/hr on a consistent basis. I make much more than that all day, every day... but it's only because I have a full-time staff of nine engineers, each billing out at $120-180/hr.

You're overstating your success in an attempt to make money advising others. I consider that dishonest.