Questions about evaluating new clients and their reliability when working as freelancer.
Questions tagged [evaluating-clients]
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How to turn down freelancing projects due to ethical/moral dilemmas without upsetting client or referring party?
Regular employees can choose what company to work for and stick with it. Freelancers meet new clients everyday - repeat businesses, referrals or simply new people. How can you pick and choose, especially when the reason is not quite clear?
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When working with another freelancer, how do we resolve disagreements on what projects to take?
Two freelancers have partnered up who both specialize in different aspects of Web development. They bill the client for all of the work done and then split the profits evenly, so both parties spend an equal share of time working on a particular…
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How to decide what Upwork projects to bid on?
There's a lot of answers about how to be a high-quality Upwork freelancer. But with a limited number of Connects each month, how best to high-value projects to bid on?
The Upwork forums (which I don't think I can link to here) have an excellent post…
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What's the most important consideration when accepting a new client?
I'm a freelance developer who started over 20 years ago. I need to improve my ability to avoid clients that can be considered a bad use of my time. So I'm asking you (developer or not): what is the most important consideration that you keep in mind…
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Client asking me to do a coding challenge
I'm in a rather unusual situation.
Client comes and asks me if I can build an app with this and that technology. After we agree on hourly rate and time schedule, they ask me to do a coding challenge before we sign the contract.
We are both, me and…
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How can one identify if a lead is genuine or not
I receive a lot of leads requesting quotes for work to be done. Most of these leads end up fruitless. I've started to think that most of these come from other upcoming freelancers who are looking to provide estimates to their own clients without…
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Two contracting offers what should I do?
My role as a contractor for a US firm is about to start on Friday and I also have another local startup company with an offer and don't know which to choose.
The US firm has done background checks, and it's a 9 to 5, M-F, indefinitely. They employ…
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How to screen potential new clients?
How can I screen potential clients to remove those most likely to give me more trouble than they are worth?
(This is a generic question, anyway my area of expertise is software development)
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What is it called when a client uses the freelance market for outsourcing?
Months ago a client accepted my bid for helping with mathematica software. I checked his portfolio. As a client he had a good reputation but I started to feel suspect about his portfolio of projects. He has completed projects related to Engineering,…
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Be fair if client offering more work, but owe money to person that paid you for previous work?
Ok, the title is silly as I am not sure how to formulate it.
This is the case. A very cool guy, programmer, introduced me to his client and asked that I code something for his client, while he will stay focused on his own work on that software. I…
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