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Casual Articles - Freelancers Learn To Protect Yourself From Fraud And Deceptive Clients
8 Ways to Fill a Workshop in a Bum EconomyYes, you can fill a workshop when spending is down and buyers are wary. If your topic is clear, your marketing materials well-done, your product solid and your title catchy, success shouldn’t be tough. The fact is that people are as hungry as ever for the inspiration and stimulus a workshop provides, even when they’re nervous about money. And even though most bum economies recover over time, you may find the following tricks helpful enough to keep using even in good times!1. Tailor the workshop to the economy all about?" Not only that, leave notes for other things such as who created the page and the date. Leave an email address that you know you will have for a long time. so you can be contacted ... unless the client forbids such contact (which should be an alarm bell in your hea Butterfly Marketing Manuscript ReviewUnless you're new to Internet Marketing you've heard of Mike Filsaime. He's the guy that made an absurd amount of money with his Bufferfly Marketing product. Well he recently released a smaller portion of that product (his manuscript) at a hugely discounted rate compared to the entire package. I jumped at the chance to check out this ebook (which is a whopping 124 pages), and I'm liking it a lot! I've picked up a HUGE amount of information about product launches and things you can do to get as many As freelancers there are things we absolutely MUST do to protect not only ourself, but freelancers who may be coming up behind us. Freelancers who do NOT do these thing are hurting all of us.
- HAVE A CONTRACT FOR ALL WORK! I can not believe how many freelancers do not use contracts. Then along comes somebody who does have a contract and the potential client does a song and dance about how s/he has never used one before and don't you trust them? and so on and so forth. Not only that, but when the job is done .... is it? How many times have freelancers gotten done with a job just to have the client add on to it? Even WITH a contract this will happen. But the difference is that with a contract, you have a legal leg to stand on to refuse to do more work that is not covered in the contract.
- LEAVE NOTES This helps not only those who come after you but notes are really for YOU. I know I can work on a project and come back later to do more or change something and can't remember what or how or anything else. I look at the code I wrote and wonder "what was that all about?" Not only that, leave notes for other things such as who created the page and the date. Leave an email address that you know you will have for a long time. so you can be contacted ... unless the client forbids such contact (which should be an alarm bell in your head
Are Your Salespeople Sabotaging Their Success?Many salespeople could be so much more successful than they are. All that is needed is a willingness to stop behaviors that hurt their success and replace them with actions and attitudes that will ensure success. What are some of the factors that limit salespeople’s success? See if you can see yourself in any of the following:1. Believing that success in selling will be easy and fast.2. The inability to keep yourself motivated regardless of the circumstances.3. Living in the past or the future. ancers do not use contracts. Then along comes somebody who does have a contract and the potential client does a song and dance about how s/he has never used one before and don't you trust them? and so on and so forth. Not only that, but when the job is done .... is it? How many times have freelancers gotten done with a job just to have the client add on to it? Even WITH a contract this will happen. But the difference is that with a contract, you have a legal leg to stand on to refuse to do more work that is not covered in the contract.
- LEAVE NOTES This helps not only those who come after you but notes are really for YOU. I know I can work on a project and come back later to do more or change something and can't remember what or how or anything else. I look at the code I wrote and wonder "what was that all about?" Not only that, leave notes for other things such as who created the page and the date. Leave an email address that you know you will have for a long time. so you can be contacted ... unless the client forbids such contact (which should be an alarm bell in your hea
Five New Client Warning Signals You Should Not IgnoreAs a new freelance bookkeeper, accountant, or other entrepreneur in the service or consulting business, you may be tempted to accept any client, just to get your business started. However, not all potential clients are the kind you want. Beware of the following warning signs:1. Client is not current with income tax or payroll tax returns. When meeting with potential clients, always inquire about the status of income tax and payroll tax filings. If the client is cheating, ignoring, or lying to the IRS, y times have freelancers gotten done with a job just to have the client add on to it? Even WITH a contract this will happen. But the difference is that with a contract, you have a legal leg to stand on to refuse to do more work that is not covered in the contract.
- LEAVE NOTES This helps not only those who come after you but notes are really for YOU. I know I can work on a project and come back later to do more or change something and can't remember what or how or anything else. I look at the code I wrote and wonder "what was that all about?" Not only that, leave notes for other things such as who created the page and the date. Leave an email address that you know you will have for a long time. so you can be contacted ... unless the client forbids such contact (which should be an alarm bell in your hea
Five Characteristics of Outstanding SalespeopleA high quality sales representative is a unique individual, just as unique as you and your jewelry line, so while the final decision a jewelry designer will make in choosing a sales representative will ultimately be, "How does he or she fit in with my company and what I am trying to accomplish?", there are some qualities that are the essence of excellence in salesmanship regardless of whether or not there is a personality match.1. Confidence - Is the person self-assured and truly knowledgeable? When they do LEAVE NOTES This helps not only those who come after you but notes are really for YOU. I know I can work on a project and come back later to do more or change something and can't remember what or how or anything else. I look at the code I wrote and wonder "what was that all about?" Not only that, leave notes for other things such as who created the page and the date. Leave an email address that you know you will have for a long time. so you can be contacted ... unless the client forbids such contact (which should be an alarm bell in your hea Power of Squeeze Pages for RealtorsSqueeze pages are a very hot topic in the internet marketing scene. What a squeeze page is is a page that is built to get someone to take an action. You have a newsletter but visitors to your site are not subscribing to it enough for your liking so what you do is on each page of your site you offer some kind of freebie, lets say on your buyers page you can offer to send the kind of listings that the person is looking for (if your MLS offers the service this may be very very easy to do) or maybe on a page for sellers all about?" Not only that, leave notes for other things such as who created the page and the date. Leave an email address that you know you will have for a long time. so you can be contacted ... unless the client forbids such contact (which should be an alarm bell in your head). Then if you go in and edit the code, leave a note as to exactly what you did and when and why. This keeps a nice trail going for everyone. One note I want to see more people use is the one saying if the client has paid for the service yet. I always put a note in saying "Edited on [date] Paid for on [date]" If the date for paid is blank, then I did not get paid for it or was paid and then blocked before I could put in the date. Either way, the next person looking at it should take that into consideration.
- UPFRONT PAYMENT Every once in a while I let this one slide and just about everytime I end up regretting it. Even if you are going to do a month-to-month contract for somebody, get a "setup" fee or somesuch to start work. If you are being paid by the project, then get at least 25% up front. I recommend 50% upfront, 25% at beta testing, and 25% on completion. When you don't get an upfront payment, you are taking all the risk on yourself and the client is risk free. An upfront payment ensures the freelancer gets SOME money from the project. Times you can think about not ta
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