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German Magazine Client not paying (US Freelance Illustrator)
I've been doing work for a few years for a German Magazine. They have always paid late. Recently I started following up requesting they pay me what they owe me, wiring all late payments (currently over $8K). They are ghosting me. I emailed the…
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When should I sent the invoice?
So I’m new at freelancing. I do it part time while also working full time.
I sent some final drafts over to the client over a month ago however whenever I check in with them via email they keep saying they are working on the content still. But I’ve…
Jade
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Using Payoneer accounts in Fiverr's disabled account
Can we use a Payoneer account for a fiverr account when it is already attached to a disabled fiverr account?
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(Employer) UK Freelancer quit without notice after 2 days. Recruiter is invoicing us for those days. Where do we stand?
looking to understand the legal and ethical standpoint here.
We took on a contractor for some work, expecting it to be a month long +/- piece of work.
We started having issues early on (didn't show up one day - had lost bag and devices), and self…
Tom
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How to deal with clients in regards to Wordpress-development
I have the impression that my Wordpress-projects seem to function very differently depending on how the client works with me.
Some projects are easy - we select a template, the client accepts that we do not want to change much, delivers text and…
user21909
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Good practices for dealing with clients in more distant timezones
I'm based in New Zealand and in previous years I was freelancing in Australia. I've done work for US clients on the west coast in (PST/PDT) and the timezone difference (it's about 4 hours difference from NZT) felt minimal and was in fact beneficial…
timbo
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Mass cold-emails to get work — unethical?
I'm planning on returning to self-employment (graphic design) full time.
In the past, I used to get most of my work with the following two approaches:
Meeting as many new people as possible — a lot of this was simply me making friends with fellow…
user15733
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How much should I charge to backup a NAS drive to my server every night?
How much should I charge my client to backup the data from a Synology NAS drive to my home Windows server which is used as a FTP server for backups? I don't want to seem expensive or charge too little as this is a new sector for me.
The backups will…
John
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Can a client deduct additional work from my price?
I finished a recent website project which took too much time for a low price. I delivered the project completed (without excluding potential minor bugs). After delivery, they informed me of something that I never knew before. It makes the main part…
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How do you know if a client is serious about your service?
I am new to freelancing work, currently have no client and been in touch with two clients who show interests on my service. We met couple times already but both client seems not moving the process to discuss the contract detail, I just afraid if I…
Thomas G. Lau
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What options are available in the UK to someone who is looking to work on the road?
Consider a half day meeting at another site away from home. In order to make the most of the other half day, it would be helpful to have a local place to set up a laptop, with a wifi connection, and work.
In the UK there are several Co-Working…
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Client suggesting to cap off a project
So I have been working with a US based funded startup (atleast that is what I was told initially they had USD 1 million in funding). I started off the project on T&M approach because the app constantly evolved. I bill them weekly (USD 1000). It’s…
Nisha Changrani
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How can I be paid as founder of a LLC?
A group of friends are going to create a non-resident LLC in the USA. My question is how can we be paid as company founders?
Would be possible to be registered as self-employed in our respective countries and send invoices to our own company? Will…
Diego Barreiro
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EU freelancer, UK client non-paying and full of it
I started freelancing for a UK client, myself being based in the Czech Republic, about a year ago. I stopped working for them in April, after not having been paid for five months. This is specialized software consulting and the sum is substantial.…
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How to give client a bill for service performend half a year ago?
Around half a year ago, I performed a freelancing service for a client worth just a few hundred dollars. I did it as an individual and he paid me as a company, but I planned(and told him about it) on registering UK LTD and billing him as a…
Nema Ga
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