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Many years ago I was a self-employed consultant that did work for a lot of small/medium sized clients. I would never want to do that again. The size of the cli
by 300bps 5y ago
Many years ago I was a self-employed consultant that did work for a lot of small/medium sized clients.
I would never want to do that again. The size of the client determines how much money they have to pay you before you owe them your first born child.
Level 1 - Home Users. If they pay you $100, you better answer their calls within 30 seconds on a Sunday.
Level 2 - Up to 10 employees. $1,000.
Level 3 - 11 to 500 employees. $10,000.
Level 4 - 500 to 1,000 employees. $50,000.
Level 5 - 1,001+ employees. They just don't care. They can pay you $500,000 or even millions and if it blows up in their face they'll chalk it up as a "learning lesson".
- geocrasher 5y agoThis is so true!
- newaccount74 5y agoI once did some consulting work for a funded startup, for me it was the biggest contract I ever had (about $20k) and the project didn't really work out, but they didn't care and just paid my invoice. It was so nice to be treated like a professional. On the other hand, small clients who paid $2k for something kept coming back with revision requests...