I know this is easier said than done because this is when you find out who genuinely cares for you and those who just want to use you, but you need to charge fo

I know this is easier said than done because this is when you find out who genuinely cares for you and those who just want to use you, but you need to charge for your time. Explain that you are being taken away from other work which pays, you may well get the Spanish Inquisition over your "customers" and income, you may get sob stories of how hard it is to bring up a family if they have kids, you will get bullied, you will get alot of emotional manipulation and guilt tripping put on you, but you need to become psychopathic over this and insist your time is money and this is what you are charging. The emotional abuse is tough especially when it comes from family and friends but its what you have to do in order to be successful. One of my ex customers, once said to me, "there are no friends in business" and its true, and he had worked dammed hard to build up his business.