rates

Ask Me Anything: Rates, Cold-Calling and Contracts

Ashley Festa asks, What are the must-haves in your writing contracts? While I’m pretty flexible about contracts with my clients (I generally use a letter of agreement), there are a couple of things that I find especially important to have in writing with my clients: The money: It may seem a little obvious that I [...]

Read the full article

Why Are Freelancers More Expensive?

I’ve had clients do a double take when they see my hourly rate. They’ve asked why I’m so expensive — especially when they can hire an employee to do the same sort of work for half the hourly wage I’m asking. A few have even mentioned that they can get some minimum wage, entry level [...]

Read the full article

What is your time worth?

There are plenty of job sites out there that offer freelance work at the rate of a dollar per 500 words, or some other extremely low rate. I won’t work for those rates, but for some people a single dollar has a sufficient buying power to make it worth their time. Consider a country like [...]

Read the full article