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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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Is it good to get paid in advance and then start project development?
Most of the clients are prompt and pay the money on completion of the project. While some companies agree to pay the amount as soon as project delivery, it never happens as expected.
The reasons they give is that they are testing, or that they are…
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EU-citizen working as contractor in Switzerland?
If I'm an EU-citizen and want to work in Switzerland as contractor, what should I do, if I have company registered in EU?
Can I work in Switzerland as contractor and invoice my client company as EU-registered company? Or I'm required to register…
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Is there any service to outsource reading job offers I get and negotiating with potential employers?
I have been looking for something like that but I couldn't find anything. Below are details of what I am looking for and what I have tried so far.
This question is not a duplicate of Finding talent agents for software developers - see…
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Should I charge a client who does not come to a code help appointment?
I agreed to help a new client refactor a piece of code. This is a simple task that should not take more than a couple of hours. He agreed to pay me my hourly rate.
He didn't come to the meeting, sending a message after 30 minutes apologizing for not…
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Clients who don't pay their invoices what are your options?
Given the following facts regarding their agreement:
- Client is past due their invoices
- Freelancer is an independant contractor / consultant
- Not always is there a deliverable product
What options does a freelancer have if the client doesn't pay…
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How does a developer determine they are qualified to be hired as a freelance developer?
I have been studying iOS development on my own for about 8 months. I'm pretty comfortable in my ability to build a small app with a clean UI, but don't know the entire API in and out.
How does a developer determine they are qualified to be hired as…
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Freelance graphic design without true work experience or degree
I'm wondering if there are places where people submit jobs in graphic design and where people can submit results, all without the process of an interview or a hiring system. I feel that I'm a pretty capable artist, but I don't want to get an actual…
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How do I tell a client that I'm working fewer hours because they pay me much worse than my other clients?
I have a client that I have worked with for 5 years. We have a great working relationship. However, since I've graduated university and found other clients, I've noticed that I'm severely underpaid by the old one (I'm paid about 66% of what I should…
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Too many clients, not enough work
Right now I have several more clients than I'd really like to have. They are mostly good clients overall, and I enjoy the work I do for them. However, work is never 100% steady with any of them; any given client might give me steady work for several…
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Client wants manual for everything I do
So I am a software engineer and currently have lots of clients that I create and maintain websites in WordPress.
One of my clients, who I have a maintenance contract with(fixed $ / month) wants to be involved in certain aspects of the website, such…
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Dealing with a customer that was satisfied with your services but is mad about the price
SUMMARY: A customer is satisfied with the quality of services she received but realizes, after the fact, that other service providers charge less. Although there is a difference in the quality of services between the providers, the customer has a…
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How do I start my Freelancer career?
I'm from Brazil, I have more than 5 years of experience with ASP.NET, and was recently certified as MCSD Web Development. There's no freelancer market here in Brazil, only full time boring jobs without career opportunities. I would like to start as…
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How much should I charge as a late fee?
When a customer does not pay within 30 days, what fee should I charge? What models exist out there that are common to the software development world? How would VERY late payments work, such as 6 months late, etc.? Compounded interest?
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Should I charge for idle services as a freelancer?
In my freelancing; I am currently working on a project where I need to upload files so i'm sitting here waiting for the files to upload so I can continue to work on the project.
As a freelancer; is it ethical to charge the client for idleness (the…
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