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Clients with 1-2 days long project asking for daily updates since I was offered the project
It seem to be happening to me often. I have just started freelancing remotely. For now, I am targeting small project (1-7 days long).
Usually I try to keep a small backlog of projects so I am not completely without any work at any time.
Once I have…
user22286
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UK self-employed, not VAT payee, EU client wants EU VAT number
I am a UK-based self-employed consultant, not registed for VAT
An EU-based client wants EU VAT number otherwise they won't pay
If I register for the number, is it just a paperwork hassle, or do I have any other duties?
Can I de-register later?
It's…
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Health insurance and freelancing in the US
As a freelancer/Independant Contractor and given the changes with the recent Obamacare (Affordable Care Act and Patient Care and Coverage Act) changes (I prefer not to discuss political opinions please), what do freelancers have to do under this new…
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Reasonable amount of time for clients to respond to applicants?
What's a reasonable amount of time to expect a client to respond to an applicant before you retract an application for unresponsiveness?
Jamie Krasnoo
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How can I organize my payment procedures to assure that I'm getting paid without excessive pressure on the client?
Briefing:
I recently decided to get serious about establishing my freelance web development business and one of my biggest issues thus far is with the payment procedures. In the past, I used to charge my clients by the service with 25% to 50% as…
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If I pay for and have sole control of a digital service and have no obligation to provide the service for gratis - Can I close the service?
Background
I did some pro-bono work for a community organisation a year back which involved establishing a website prototype built from commercial third party services. Some services had a yearly recurring service fee, and during the prototype stage…
LateralFractal
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How do you keep track of the details for the different websites you maintain?
I have multiple websites, mainly in Wordpress, that I manage and I need to share the details of those sites and everything about the customer's online presence in a centralized location with the person I do freelance web development for. Right now…
Scott H
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How to help a client understand that 16-hour effort doesn't mean deliver the next day?
I've recently quoted a client on a project for 16 hours of effort. I've told him that I can deliver the work in 3 weeks time.
However, he took the 16 hours of effort literally and expected me to deliver the next day since 16 hours of effort is what…
xenon
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Managing Someone else's Social Media
I've been asked if I can manage social media for someone whose business is in another province - which means I cannot easily travel to them to gather images/content/videos/etc.
How can you best manage the content for someone in this type of…
becca
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Hiring Contractors for Lead Generation
I want to hire a few contractors to help get leads for my business.
I am planning on paying the contractors commission only. (i.e. I get $X in sales from there referral and they get a fixed % of $X.)
Of course, the goal to get as many new and…
Alex
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Licensing or selling a mobile application to another company
I have made an application for android devices which basically predicts football games results depending on certain variables, this was a prototype, available free. The method and principle are different from other mobile applications.
The problem…
Nic
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Trade off between project code and timeline.. room for future extensions
Most of the local clients has small timeline for a project and there requirement may be complete and straight forward. Every project need some setup time and in freelancing you always are short of time. How to maintain balance between code quality…
Ahsan Sohail
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Client wants to find a payment scheme that works for us. He doesn't want retainer nor hourly. How to find a common ground?
I hope you bear with me. This is going to be quite a long post. I want to lay out my situation in detail in hopes of getting advice as to what I should do and how to approach it the best way possible.
The situation
I met this client 3 years ago when…
LTO
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Source control systems for independent single/small group developers
I occasionally work with subcontractors using Visual Studio 2012+ but don't understand how to properly handle change control in this situation, since we're all separate entities and don't work together in the same location.
How can I manage changes…
John S
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Client refused to pay for maintenance but now asks for small tweeks
We had developed a blog/sales website for a client about 6 months ago and while discussing the contract, they were sure that they won't need maintenance. Since last month, they have been asking for small tweeks to the website,really small tweeks…
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