Put The Right Foot Forward in Your Freelance Writing Career
If you’re an aspiring freelance writer looking for tips on how to start, run and manage your own freelance writing work-at-home career, I’ve got a tip for you today. Iron everything out right from the start. Lay down the ground rules, the foundation and never waver, if you possibly can, from the deposit rule. Take a deposit before you start work.
Laying down the rules takes some practice and some experience because each project, each client is different. The most important thing to make clear is the issue about communication and delivery, timeline and expected responsibilities. Most of the freelance writing jobs out there are pretty straight-forward. You deliver as and when you’re done. When the deposit is used up, you ask for more. They don’t top it up, you don’t continue writing.
I know it’s hard to lay down this rule when your freelance career is just starting up but trust me, this is the right footing to start the biz on. Maintain your ground and keep to it….if they don’t like it, they leave…don’t worry, another one will come along. Too many times this has happened to me and most of the time, I let it fly by because it’s a calculated risk but if I could do it again, rewind time and do it all over again, I wish someone would have told me this before.
Start out on the right footing with your freelance writing clients and you’ll have them for life….well, for as long as they remain in business, that is.
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