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Feb 27, 2008 6:09 am |
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re: re: Why do people think that they can get things for free? |
Rob Taylor
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I had to pipe in here. I have worked from home for over 10 years and I hear you completely Bonnie. It is awkward, frustrating, and it can hurt your feelings. You want to do the best damn job you can for them but they under-appreciate your services. Worse, you work from home, they know it, they wish they did or they could, and you are the bad guy. Or in your case lady, and a lovely one at that I might add.
I have found the best thing to do is exactly what you did - don't do it. It kills to lose the business but if you conform then it causes many more problems. You will grit your teeth the whole way through and then things never seem to go right.
Let her find someone else to do it. Only 2 - 2.5 hours? Good lord. Like you charge 5K an hour or something. Like you are going to create that brochure and sit on a beach for the next year.
But I do have one suggestion to offer if you can do it - try and only work for existing businesses that have been around for a few years. Preferrably before the Internet began. Small corps are the best. They never do this. It is one thing I wish I had concentrated more on earlier in my careeer because things like this always pop-up with very small businesses and especially entrepreneurs. You gotta fight for ever penny with some of them and deal with all their cry-on-my-ass BS. Then they become a big company with multiple employees and it is not like they send you a check for 5K and say, "thank for keeping those invoices down".
You ever had a client who calls you up to argue about $20.00 on an invoice? I know you have. People like that drive me nuts. It is just unappreciative BS.
Tell her to go hire a full-time developer and see what she says :)
Rob Taylor www.enginesforwebsites.comPrivate Reply to Rob Taylor (new win) |
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