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Don't people usually deal with this sort of thing by signing a contract ahead of time?
by jnhnum1 16y ago
Don't people usually deal with this sort of thing by signing a contract ahead of time?
- sbarre 16y agoThe point of the article is that a lot of freelancers and small agencies don't have contracts in place for the work they do with their clients.
- michaelochurch 16y agoA lot of freelancers and small artists are afraid to be "aggressive" by asking for a contract. This is the same dynamic as occurs when someone is young and eager and underprices his or her services. It doesn't make people like you or get you respect. It leads people to take advantage. Always get a contract. And everyone who works independently in any context needs to watch or listen to the video. (I'm doing that right now.) It's worth the 38 minutes.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoSure. Some clients still refuse to pay. This happened a few times at a previous employer's. It usually wasn't worth it to take them to court, and since we also hosted their website, after a certain time, we'd simply take down their website and e-mail accounts. About half of the non-paying clients suddenly found room in their budget to pay us for our work and hosting fees. Funny how that works, but unfortunately, that doesn't work for design firms. :/
- tomjen3 16y agoThere is a Danish support company which figured out that if all else fails a public foundraising event will shame most companies into paying your fee. It supposedly works on IBM.
- forensic 16y agoWhat's a public foundraising event and how does it get people to pay? I don't really understand what you mean, sounds interesting though.
- tomjen3 16y agoYou pretty much have a fundraiser even like a politician would. Obviously the company is in need of money, seeing as it can't pay its bills....
- rmc 16y agoIt might be cheaper to write it off than to pursue it through the courts,
- tjr 16y agohttp://philip.greenspun.com/politics/litigation/philosophy.html http://philip.greenspun.com/politics/litigation/philosophy.h...
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- Deestan 16y agoHe talks a bit about the importance of getting the right stuff into the contract. E.g. forcing the client to pay your legal bills if you have to drag the contract to court to get them to pay you, and termination fees if they cancel the project without a good reason.