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Advice when pitching a day rate to maximize billable time
I originally asked this over on workplace.stackexchange.com: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/131342/40440
I read an article for contractors/freelancers about how to calculate a day rate, vs hourly rate. The advice was focused on how to make…
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Do you own the right to publish someone's work after you pay them?
Let's say I ask someone to make a 3d model of a monster, can I then publish his work on a modding website? Is there any other thing I need to be aware of? Do I have to put his name to credit him for the model, or not? I am just wondering, because I…
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How to combine the general advantages of "work for hire" and retain my right for reuse the code?
I'm an independent software consultant and I want to create a framework that lets me solve a wide variety of problems in a niche area.
The purpose of the framework is to have existing building blocks that I can reuse and "configure" in order to…
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Freelancer sent an undiscussed bill for quote
I've a friend who runs a small startup, and has run into an issue with a freelancer he was trying to hire to refactor & improve their mobile codebase. He had a limited budget and so was trying to figure out how much could be done within that…
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How to deal with a customer who get work and didn't gave payment?
I'm logo designer.
A few days ago a customer contacted me through a freelancing site he order me to make a logo for his product. I made a logo for him. He said to make it better. I did and delivered it but he cancelled order by saying that it is…
Shehnaz Ameer
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Can I take my client to court for non payment of invoice before invoice is due?
He has stated in an email that he will not be paying it. I had set the payment terms to 28 days. This means that I'll have to wait a month to start the claim process, beginning with a letter before action. Since he has already stated he won't pay,…
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How the ideas are protected on freelance world?
I'm new to hiring freelancers for work. I'm having few ideas but I'm not sure what are methods/mechanisms available in freelance world to protect my ideas.
What is preventing a freelancer to listen to my idea and sell it to someone? Or work with me…
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Why are freelance rates for mobile developers on freelancer.com so low?
For example
here, someone likes to pay $140 for a chat application (iOS and Android)
here, someone like to have an audio streaming mobile application be built. He is willing to pay $8 - $15 per hour!
here, someone wants an iOS kernel driver. He…
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Recruiter forwarding freelancer's profile without consent
Recently I responded to a request from a recruiter of a UK-based, "award-winning" recruitment company. We talked on the phone, and the recruiter proposed to submit my profile to a project as well as proactively submit it to companies. I responded by…
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How to tell client I cant do any more changes till they pay invoice?
I am new to freelancing. I have developed a project for a client. I am waiting for the final invoice to be settled - fixed price project. The client has requested revision changes 3 times. By revision changes I mean, I have presented the project to…
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Is it rude to be unavailable to clients when you are very busy?
excuse me for my not good English
I work as a freelance web developer for small to medium local companies and I work alone.
Sometimes it happens that I have too much works and projects going on at the same time, or maybe I gave my availability to a…
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Charging a yearly support fee for commercial CMS based website?
I use WordPress and WordPress websites need regular updates, which can bring about conflicts between plugins or even some plugins ceasing to work. In such situations, it can take many hours to fix the problem. How to charge for these hours? Do you…
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Where to find remote contract work in SAP / ABAP?
I am an experienced IT freelancer (15+ years of software development and systems administration) and have recently gained some SAP certification, actually the basic SAP ERP certificate (from SAP AG) and an ABAP certificate from a local…
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Client refusing to pay, threatening to involve lawyer
After working on a freelance Graphic Design project in New York for an individual wanting to start a magazine I had to return back to the UK for visa reasons. I did not manage to complete the project but the design was finished by the other designer…
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Where can a new freelancer find people to work with?
Offline and online, how can I determine what places someone new to freelancing should frequent to get a solid start; Specifically, someone looking to partner with other freelancers?
How can I determine what kinds of places (both online and locally)…
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