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Ex-employer wants to hire me after I send him a design
No money, no final design. Full stop.
You can meet with them to discuss what they're looking for, or refer them to your portfolio. You NEVER release a final product until you get paid or money is in ...
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Is it unacceptable or not wise to email clients during the weekend?
Here's my opinion and practice....
I never respond or contact clients during any time I want to myself, ever.
That is to say.. I don't respond to or contact clients before 9am, after 5pm, on ...
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How do you curtail too much customer input on website design?
Directed Choices.
Most clients I experience want to feel as though they have input into how things look. I think that's just human nature. The key for me has been to always provide directed choices ...
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Reduce rate when learning on the job?
Don't charge the client at all for the time you spend learning how to produce their deliverables.
Do charge the client your regular hourly rate for the time you spend working to produce their ...
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Is getting software development clients really harder?
First off, every freelancer is different and will wind up with different strategies for getting new clients. (That is why questions like this might be closed as unanswerable.) The most important thing ...
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Ex-employer wants to hire me after I send him a design
Me personally, I don't pick up a pencil, mouse, turn on a computer, put on my glasses, etc..... nothing unless a fee has been determined for the work I'll be doing.
In some cases, a deposit may be ...
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How are images, icons, videos, logos, etc. budgeted, and who chooses them, the developer or the client?
This will vary from client to client and will be based on their wishes, but can really be summed up as follows
Client images
The client will provide their own images for use in the project. They ...
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Non- Vat Invoice? How to invoice?
That gov.uk link is a very good one. There are some non-government sites which also give advice on running a small business and others which have templates for invoices. This Google Doc lists all the ...
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Spec work for a future medium-sized company
No good client asks for "test" projects.
There is no such thing as a "test" project. Just because the client labels something "test" that does not mean less work is involved. All "test" ensures is ...
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How much detail do you provide a client wanting to improve an existing site?
I generalize as much as possible.
Improve navigation discoverability
NOT Improve navigation discovery by increasing button size , creating drop down menus, changing color, moving to left.
Increase ...
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How do I tell a client that our contract isn't being upheld?
Explain to your friend (and any other stakeholders) that you are stopping all work and communications relating to this project until your contract is brought back into compliance. If you were supposed ...
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Very difficult client now seems to have lost interest
Working in design, you have to ensure, ensure that the client is active and communicating in a detailed and descriptive manner what they desire. Otherwise it is like a nightmare, of constant redrafts.
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How to efficiently find graphic design opportunities
Word of Mouth
Nothing else will work well.
Those crowdsource web sites are overly populated by hobbyists willing to work for next to nothing. Everyone and their brother who has a pirated copy of ...
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How do you curtail too much customer input on website design?
I would suggest adding language to your contract specifying how many design revisions will be allowed, free-of-charge. Be frank with your client when discussing this part of the contract and tell them ...
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Question about the design contract work. / undecisive client
I'm noticing from the one of the comments here that you haven't received your initial deposit yet. Oh my gosh! You are being played.
As you have not received a penny of "consideration" for ...
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Question about the design contract work. / undecisive client
In my experience, no piece, even the most intricate complicated piece, has ever gone above 5-10 revisions. If a piece is surpassing that amount, or the requested revisions are "sweeping" in ...
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Is getting software development clients really harder?
To add to the great answer @David-R: OP mentions several valid approaches to gaining new clients; cold-calling, emailing, using a third party.
These approaches are not mutually exclusive - so there is ...
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How to find a suitable blockchain talent?
It depends on what you are looking for. It is not difficult like you said. Blockchain is the hottest skill right now, it opened a huge market. Many people join and develop it to become talents. You ...
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Ex-employer wants to hire me after I send him a design
You can send screenshots/images/mockup of the design instead of sharing design files and code.
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How much detail do you provide a client wanting to improve an existing site?
When I get a new client with an existing system, I bill them the initial assessment with a reasonably hourly rate. The same goes for new clients who want to see drafts. I also offer them to discount ...
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Can/Should I provide engineering services with a PO and no contract?
A Purchase Order is a legally binding contract.
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How to attract customers in the special field?
Prospects in that space are likely to be technically capable, though could just as likely be entrepreneurial hopefuls. Either way, they'll likely consider outright pitches spam. Because of this, I'd ...
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How to prepare a job to keep it on schedule?
Part of my contact, and Scope of Work, is that I list out what is required to meet each milestone. For Wordpress sites (or any website, really), I layout a task list such as:
The CLIENT must agree ...
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Spec work for a future medium-sized company
I've had a client try this on me (not for this kind of design work, but for magazine production). And they ended up being the worst client I've ever worked for. Now, my policy is always "f**k you, pay ...
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Non- Vat Invoice? How to invoice?
Some excellent help can be found on the gov.uk site which, I have to be honest, is the first result when you google for "UK invoice". Getting the info from a government website is always more reliable ...
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How do you curtail too much customer input on website design?
It's very important that you talk very well with your client, before starting to work, to understand as much as possible what he expects to see in his web site. This is a crucial part that when well ...
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