Hot take: I turned down a steady $500 a month retainer for a one-off project
A marketing agency in Tampa offered me a long-term retainer to manage their social media, but I chose to take a single $2,000 website build instead. Everyone said the steady income was the smarter play, but that retainer would have locked up 10 hours a week I needed for bigger clients. It was a gamble, but that free time let me land two more site projects the next month. Has anyone else passed on a retainer that looked good on paper?