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The Importance of Contracts
What’s on the iPod: You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere by Counting Crows Another busy one yesterday. I started a new client project almost at the same time the contract came in. I was eager to get going on this one as it’s a new client I located at the conference. I waited for the contract. Not…
Startups or Not
What I’m reading: Guide to Human Conduct by P. R. SarkarWhat’s on the iPod: Better Together by Jack Johnson Back to normal. With Mom back home, I had about three hours uninterrupted to get some work done. I managed a good bit. I have a head start on the newsletter project, all parties contacted, and…
Addendums and Oddities
What’s on the iPod: Strange Condition by Pete Yorn It must be a week of best-laid schemes flying out the window. Yesterday was no exception. I had what I thought was a smallish project in the morning that turned out to be much more complicated than it presented itself to be. There went three hours….
Stupid Clauses and Clients Who Push Them
What’s on the iPod: Something Good This Way Comes by Jakob Dylan It’s amazing how much you can accomplish when you feel lots of tight deadlines coming down on you. By noon yesterday, I’d completed three projects and started on a fourth. I spent the afternoon going over contracts and yes, marketing. Just because things…
When the Rules Change
What’s on the iPod: Just Another Girl by Pete Yorn Interesting day yesterday. I had a conference call with my clients to clear up some projet inconsistencies, which went very well. I had just hung up the phone when an email came in on a project bid. The prospective client asked for an IM chat….
The Payment Plan
Lorraine Thompson has a great post up about the pros and cons of long-term projects on her Market Copywriter blog. She does a great job showing it from both sides. We talked a bit in her comments section about the other issue with long-term projects: payment. It’s not about making sure to get it, but…
Worthy Tip: Finding Value
If you haven’t gone over to Screw You! and read Kathy Kehrli’s account of her Demand Studio experience, please do so. It’s insightful. It’s also a balanced report, one in which Kathy herself is upfront and makes no judgments based on anything but her personal experience. It’s a good read for new writers faced with…
Limbo, Then Sprint
No, I’m not talking about my exercise program. I’m talking about short deadlines that are made shorter by lack of contracts or lack of something on the client side. Currently I’m sitting on two projects, both of which have an end-of-the-month deadline, both of which are at this moment uncontracted. I have notes to both…
Burn, Baby, Burn
Pop quiz for you: If you’re in the middle of a client negotiations and the client counters your price with a request to put something together quickly for them while ignoring all mention of your price, what do you do? Answer: Nothing. The hard fact is that until you have a contract, you have no…