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Before I joined Teamwork.com, I directed client accounts at agencies, and the most uncomfortable meeting of every month was the profitability review. We'd pull time out of one tool, costs out of another, and rates out of a spreadsheet someone updated when they remembered to. By the time the numbers lined up, the project was already over, and so was any chance to fix it. That's the real problem with most "profitability tracking." It tells you what happened after you can't do anything about it.

There's a Reddit thread that's currently ranking for this exact topic, and the whole premise is that project profitability is "basically a guess." I get why people feel that way. But forecasting profit before you start isn't fortune-telling, it's a repeatable calculation you can run on any project in about an hour. This guide walks through the five-step method I used in my agency days to predict a project's margin before a single hour is logged.

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Ask anyone why they use WhatsApp for work and the answer is almost always the same: everyone's already on it. That's true. WhatsApp has over two billion users worldwide. It's fast, familiar, and free. When you need to reach an external partner quickly, or coordinate with a colleague outside your usual tools, it's the path of least resistance.