No, I charge by a monthly retainer only. The more hours I work per month means the better hourly I can provide.  Having a monthly retainer means I will be able to provide ongoing analytics help.

Yes, the analytics service will go until the end of the month then can be canceled.

Analytics should be an ongoing process. A site should not be tagged and then the analytics person goes away. In order to understand your site user behavior best, I prefer to take the time to understand your site user behavior. My job is to ultimately help you optimize your site and get the most out of your site, It's also important to me to build a business relationship.

Yes, I think it's important to discuss analytics so we are all on the same page. It's important for you to understand what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. It's also important for us to build that business relationship which I think is the key to optimizing the results of analytics work along with my experience and knowledge on the topic.