Thanks, Sandra Ebejer! By this point I’ve been writing blogs for clients long enough that I know about how long each posts takes me to research — I’ve been using Toggl to track my time for well over a year now, so that gives me a pretty good estimate of how much time I spend on research. I add that average into my total project length when giving a quote, so my clients don’t really see a quote for research AND one for writing; they just see a quote for the entire project.

As far as pricing goes, I cover that more in depth here: https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-price-your-services-as-a-freelance-writer-8984d76b3158