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7 Reasons to Feel Good About Dumping Your Problem Client

7 Reasons to Feel Good About Dumping Your Problem Client

Every freelancer has had that client.

You know the one I mean — the client all your friends hear about over drinks, whose name you dread seeing in your email inbox or your phone’s caller ID.

You know working with that client makes your life harder, but you can’t shake the feeling there’s something wrong with ending a client relationship.

That’d mean less money in the bank each month. You’re supposed to be grateful for any work you get, right?

Wrong.

One of the great (and often underused) privileges of working for yourself is the ability to walk away when something’s not working. Your time is valuable, so don’t feel obligated to spend it on a client that isn’t worth it to you.  [Read more…]

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5 Reasons You Owe it to Other Writers to Start Charging More

5 Reasons You Owe it to Other Writers to Start Charging More

You just got a new lead. In the midst of all of the excitement of possibly gaining a new customer and making more money, you start to feel that familiar feeling in the pit of your stomach.

Goddammit, you’re gonna have to have that dreaded conversation again. The one about pricing.

For most of us, figuring out our rates and discussing them with clients is the worst. There’s always that worry that as soon as you mention money the client will disappear, or tell you straight to your face that you’re not worth that much.

We all remember those days starting out when we’d see job ads demanding what sounded like an obscene amount of work for a tiny payoff and thought “is it even possible to make money at this?” (Then we discovered people like Sophie and Carol Tice and learned better.)

Here’s the problem: jobs like that can only exist as long as there are writers still grossly undervaluing their services. As professional bloggers, our biggest competition is not other professional writers, it’s the mistaken mentality that writing is cheap. [Read more…]