How to Capture More Billable Hours

Here are 3 tips to increase your billable hours:

1--bcc yourself on email and insert a key word eg "omega" in the subject line somewhere, you can do a search for "omega" at the end of the day and it will refresh your memory of time you spent that should be billed to a client.

2--another technique to increase hours is to keep a list of your clients on your desk and compare it to the time you have already billed for the day to see if you forgot anything.

3--a third technique is to compare your time entries to your emails for the day.

4--Finally, ask your secretary/assistant to send you a daily email listing the client, account number, and what you did that came through his or her desk, e.g. You may have had a conference call that was placed for you, but you forgot to capture the time.  Other types of time that might not get captured are: motions, letters or other documents that your secretary saw first i.e., came across his or her desk that were forwarded it to you.