Paul D. Jacobs – Freelance Web Programmer

Here at Freelance Folder we always recommend that Freelancers charge what they are worth. In fact, we’ve written numerous posts to help freelancers determine what to charge for their services.

With all of those posts about setting freelancing rates, you’d think that we’d be the last people to tell freelancers that they should give anything away.

The truth is, giveaways DO work as an effective marketing strategy for freelancers. In this post, we’ll discuss why it works and help you discover how to implement this strategy for your own freelancing business.

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Are you too quick to turn down a potential client?

While it’s vitally important for freelancers to charge what they are worth, many freelancers move from being too timid to charge a fair rate to being too eager to dismiss a potential client because the work isn’t enjoyable enough or the pay isn’t high enough. In fact, a few freelancers are downright rude about the way that they dismiss inquiries that don’t their standards.

As you can imagine, this diva-like behavior can leave a pretty bad taste in a potential’s client’s mouth.

Of course, some clients really are tire kickers with no real interest at all in doing business with you. So, it does pay to be careful sometimes. (We’ve already provided a lot of information on how to screen clients, so this post deals with the other side of the problem–the freelancer who is just too picky for his or her own good.)

In this post, I’ll distinguish between being a careful business person and being a freelancing diva. I’ll also explain how not to be a freelancing diva when it comes to examining new client prospects.

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