I knew when I was crafting the proposal last week that it wasn’t going to fly. While the potential client had all the earmarkings of someone who understood paying fairly for services rendered, there was that underlying current of not understanding exactly what constitutes fairness. I can’t blame him for not having the knowledge of…
Tag: pricing freelance work
Steady as She Goes
I’m sporting the remnants of a migraine that woke me up, and I’m taking it nice and slow today (so if this post seems all over the place, it’s because I’m riding an Excedrin high). We have tickets to see Eddie Izzard in Manhattan tonight, and if the weater doesn’t stop us, I refuse to…
Let’s Talk Numbers
With the onslaught of what I think are the worst possible “job” offerings out there right now, I think it’s time for us to talk once more about valuing yourself. Kathy Kerhli, whose Irreverent Freelancer site is one of my go-to sites each day, has dug up a winner for her Middle Finger of the…
New Year, New You?
Let’s be honest; we somehow equate the beginning of each year with the chance to reinvent ourselves. And we do – for about a month. All our good intentions become crammed into the first week of the new year. Some are reasonable goals, such as contacting X number of potential clients per week. Others are…
What Are You Worth?
Like it or not, we are in the midst of a writing industry crisis. You don’t see it, you say? Sure you do – you just don’t recognize it. It’s in the low-paying jobs that have become more standard than those that pay you what you’re worth. And you feed into it every time you…
How to Know You Need a Bigger Shovel
OrSpotting the Bad Job Listings Sometimes, they just make it easy for you. There’s the ad that offers you a whopping $4 an article or the one that will pay you $200 to edit a 50,000-word book. But sometimes the lousy job listings aren’t so easy to spot. Unless, that is, you speak bullsh$t and…
Clients: What to Expect from Your Writer/Editor
Sometimes the problems we have with clients comes from the expectations – what we deilver versus what they think we’ll deliver. Nowhere is this more true than in the actual scope of work we deliver. Recently I had a conversation with a client in which he thought I was performing A function when it was…
Writer’s Rates
Thanks again to Anne Wayman’s forum for another lively discussion about pay. This time, the discussion centers around how much you should expect to earn as a freelancer. Interesting topic, for there are as many right answers as there are writers, I suspect. The original poster, Yuwanda Black of Inkwell Editorial, was offering her e-book…
When It’s Over
With Apologies to Sugar RayThere comes a time in any client-writer relationship when it’s time to say goodbye. In the best scenario, that’s when the project is completed and you both go about your business with hope that there will be future projects. In the worst scenario, that’s when you two have hit a roadblock…
Another Official Rant Day
And this time, it’s aimed at writers. Writers – where’s your pride? I saw some job postings recently for those low-paying articles. This one in particular paid $15 an article. I wanted to see what kind of idiot would think we’d work for that kind of money, so I clicked on the link. The note…