Tag Archive: Managing Clients


While most freelancers would probably like to work for a large company, the truth is that a lot of freelancing gigs come through small to medium-sized companies. Often, these companies change hands–sometimes in the course of a project.

What’s a freelancer to do when the company they are working for changes ownership?

Client ownership changes are common in the freelancing world. It’s happened to me, not once–but three times. A change in client ownership can be serious, because sometimes it can lead to a loss of work for the freelancer.

In this post, we’ll discuss steps that a freelancer can take if their client company is sold. I’ll also share more about what happened to my projects when my client sold their company.

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We creative people are familiar with criticism. We get it almost every day from clients, bosses and other people who “know better.” They criticize our work, decisions and ideas about design, development, writing and other creative endeavors.

Typically, when we’re being criticized, we feel uncomfortable. We feel a concrete wall rising around us, blood filling our eyes and steam emanating from our head. Okay, maybe it’s not exactly like that, but it’s close. Am I right?

Criticism, like everything else in the universe, has its own energy, and it’s palpable; being criticized is unpleasant, and the negative vibes flow.

How can we go with the flow and change the negative feelings into positive results? We’ll talk about that in this article.

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Okay, maybe sometimes it is. After all, you’re a person.

Sometimes a client rejects your work for reasons that are completely inexplicable. Sometimes, unthinkably, personal comments are even made at the time of rejection.

Whether or not their reasons for rejecting your work are personal, it certainly feels that way when your freelancing client turns you down for a new project. That hurts. It’s natural to feel some pain after losing a gig.

However, there are ways for freelancers to get past rejection. In this post, I’ll discuss rejection and invite you to share some of your strategies for dealing with it.

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Even if you have had a successful run with the most appreciative, responsible and compassionate clients in the history of freelancing, you will almost certainly eventually have a client who takes a payment to the point of Past Due. When this happens, it births a situation ripe with potential for all kinds of problems if not handled correctly. In this post, we will look at some ways to get that late payment into your hands without damaging the relationship with your client or short-changing yourself.

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Freelance work is a numbers game. There’s only a tiny hourly cost margin between prosperity and ruin. It is a hard decision how you actually need to charge for your work. I don’t think there’s one answer to it. And neither do I think you should blindly follow anyone’s advice when it comes to how you should charge.

The best way to start is to look around and see what your competitors fellow freelancers in the same niche tend to offer–that’s what your client is likely to be used to. The next step is just trying different frequently used models. Knowing the market and knowing yourself can help you make smart choices about your hourly rate and income before you hang out your shingle.

Yes, there are many disadvantages in charging hourly, but I know from experience that in many cases you will still have to charge an hourly rate. So, in case you are trying to learn how to properly charge per hour, here are seven essential tips and tricks!

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Have you ever lost a client and then wondered why?

Of course, you can always ask your client what went wrong, but many will not tell you. They may be afraid of hurting your feelings or they may just want to avoid a potentially unpleasant confrontation with you.

Since I use freelancers once in a while that puts me in the unique position of being a freelancer and also an occasional client of freelancers. So, today I put my client hat on for a change and listed all the things that I could think of that would keep me from rehiring a freelancer.

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When you’re first starting out as a freelancer, it can be difficult to find those first few gigs. Many freelancers develop the habit of accepting nearly every project with work that remotely resembles their chosen specialty.

For the brand new freelancer, taking what work you can find is a matter of survival (and there’s nothing wrong with that). Before long, however, you may find yourself overwhelmed with too much work to do and too little time to do it in. When this happens, you know that it is time to start to refuse projects. However, you probably don’t have a refusal strategy in place.

In this post, we’ll discuss when and how to say no to a potential client.

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The day that every freelancer dreams of finally comes–you get contacted by a big name client. The want you to do some work with them. You’re excited and as soon as you get off the phone you jump around your office screaming “YES!”. Surely that means if you’re doing work for one large company, you’ll never again have to scramble to find work.

However after the initial excitement has worn off and you’ve finally calmed down, your next thought hits you hard–now what? Is this just another client? Do I treat them the same? Can I charge them more? Can I use their work? Should I pretend to be a large agency?

I recently did some projects for Audible, an Amazon company, and a very large, popular computer company in Cupertino that I’m not allowed to mention the name of (hint, hint?) and I was faced with many of these questions. I’ve learned a lot by dealing with these two large companies. I hope that what I learned is as helpful to you as it was to me.

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Does your business blog or portfolio page have a frequently asked questions (FAQ) page?

If your answer is “no,” you could be losing potential clients and wasting valuable time.

In this post, we’ll discuss an easy way to add a FAQ link to your business blog. We’ll also talk about the information you should include on your FAQ page.

What Is a FAQ Page?

You may have seen FAQ pages before on technical websites or on customer service sites. FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions.

Simply put, a FAQ page or link answers the questions that your clients are most likely to ask. In fact, it’s one of the essential pages you should include on your website.

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There are countless potential benefits of being a freelancer, and the list increases if you have a spouse and children sharing the experience with you. Many, like me, are lucky enough to work from home and get to experience family life intertwined with their work on a daily basis. However, I have learned that if I don’t make a concentrated and consistent effort to seize this opportunity, it can be very easy to miss the moments that matter most.

In this post, I will share my personal declarations of my commitment to my family in my freelancing business with the hope that my manifesto will encourage you to create your own. Shouldn’t we all be giving the best of ourselves to our loved ones?

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