Working Well with Clients It’s a good day here at Words on the Page – I am excited to present an interview with Lisa Gates, an expert coach who offers fantastic advice over at her weblog, Design Your Writing Life! Today, Lisa explains the working relationship between writers and clients. What can we do when…
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Psyche!Lisa Gates mentioned a freelance writer who gets in her car, backs out of her driveway and pulls right back in. It’s her way of getting “psychologically ready” for work. How much trouble do you have getting psyched for work? Yes, you have the desk, the equipment, the time and maybe even the clients. But…
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The Complaint Department Recent “writerly” talk turned to what’s discussed in weblogs. Some suggested that weblogs were bitch-and-moan sessions that reflected badly on the writer. What’s your weblog say about you? Do you complain? If your clients were reading your weblog, would you still stand by your posts? It made me think about what I…
Proof That It WorksA friend of mine was recently telling me how she’d worked for a magazine twice and after a year, still hadn’t seen payment for either article. Oh, they had good excuses. They were dancing around the issue – “We sent a check. If you haven’t received it in a week, call us….
Projects From Hell (and why you should be pickier)At the moment, I’m feeling the weight of an unending project bearing down on me. The clients want to see it completed. I want to see it completed. But it goes on and on…. and guess what? The amount of stress this project is causing is not…
Unreliable Redux Yep, still sporting a bit of a head of steam over the nonpayment from a select few clients. For the record, I have a number of current clients who pay me on time and who get the best I can give them every time because of it. I have one client with whom…
Relying on the UnreliableThere’s one huge obstacle that is a constant threat to your freelance success – your clients. Strange, but true. The very folks who give you work and who rave about you to others are also the ones who don’t pay you on time (and in a few rare cases, not at all)…
Where is Fair?
Echoing yesterday’s theme, just where should you set your rate? How high is too high? How low is too low? Oddly, it’s not all that tough to figure out. Let me start with an example from personal experience. I had this client who needed a website revision. I gave him a price – a low…
Asking for the RaiseDoes anyone have an easy time asking the boss for a raise? As freelancers, we think we can avoid it because hey, we’re self employed! Ha. Self-employment is an illusion under which we work. No, dear writers. Whenever we want a raise, we are very much employees, but our boss is now…