Here’s a great video putting in to perspective how most clients are treating their vendors. Thanks for the link, Shalom C.
From JobShuk…back in the day
Here’s a great video putting in to perspective how most clients are treating their vendors. Thanks for the link, Shalom C.
Great video!
Though great in a scary way. Trying to bargain down prices is natural, but trying to get “something for nothing” is unacceptable. With my writing I have found that after an initial piece, some clients have “extra” work which needs to be done, work which was not announced beforehand, which they want thrown in “on the house” of course. Sometimes this extra, unpaid work is as time-consuming as the originally requested work. Unfortunately as freelancers and small business owners, clients know that they can pressure us financially and there is a good chance they will get us to cave in. They know that if we do not accept a bad deal, there is always someone out there who might. That pressure alone hanging over our heads makes us accept deals and price which we ordinarily wouldn’t. The other phenomenon which I have witness personally is clients trying to befriend the worker, thus blurring the lines of the professional relationship. Don’t get me wrong, I believe in warm and cordial relationships between all parties, but once they think the worker is their friend, they get to thinking that certain “favors” are in order. Again, a small favor here and there is fine, but often the expectations of this “friendship” can be much higher.
Yoni