THE DOS AND DON’TS OF STARTING A FREELANCING CAREER: A Guide that will help you not punch your clients in the face and have a total mental break down.

DON’T BUDGE ON YOUR RATES THIS IS NOT A FLEA MARKET:

Never Budge on your rates or start off with low prices know you’re worth. Let’s say you’re an amazing writer and the blog post you were hired only took you a half hour. consider this how many hours and how many years did it take for you to get good enough to write something interesting and captivating enough for you to be able to do it in such a short amount of time ?

DON’T TAKE ON CHEAP CLIENTS :

The amount a potential client is willing to pay you directly correlates with how much respect they have for you and your skillset. They resent having to pay you at all but ultimately they can’t do it themselves. Smart entrepreneurs know that something like say brand identity creation and positioning is more than visuals they will have allocated over 10k or more for this in their business plan. They know it is essential to the survival of their company. If they don’t care or know or are arrogant to think they know better, than they are not a client you want on your roster because your clients failures are your failures same with their successes. These types of clients will, ask you to do things not in your contract, treat you like a personal assistant, and all…