This post originally started out as a comment that I was going to leave on this article over at FreelaceSwitch, but after a couple of paragraphs I decided that it was something that I cared enough about to turn into a full article. It’s a really great post about new year’s advice for freelancers, but there was one point in particular that I felt was really more of an unfinished thought rather than a piece of succinct advice.
The Story So Far
In the FreelanceSwitch article, the author lists the following conditions for an ‘ideal project profile’ -
* A web writing, speaking, consulting or UX design assignment at my current or higher fee
* The assignment takes less than 15 hours a week to produce and is completed within one month or less.
* The client is okay with a remote working arrangement – face-to-face meetings are not necessary.
* The client is okay with deliverables created in my choice of software.
* Almost all communication will take place via email, using my email account (no agency aliases). If conference calls are needed, they are a maximum of once a week and one hour or less in duration. No instant messenger required.
* Invoice is paid in full within 30 days.
All of these are really good, I very much enjoyed the post as a whole and there are some awesome rules of thumb to follow there, it was just the very last point that bugged me.