You're having a great conversation with a potential client: the deadline is doable, the work is actually interesting and the pay will be in real dollars, not "exposure."
And then she starts speaking another language.
"Now before we begin, you'll need to sign our standard NDA and MPSA and we should probably have some sort of SOW in place, you know to better define the deliverables. Once that's done Procurement can issue the PO; our terms are net 45, is that going to be a problem?"
It’s all nice and good to be able to negotiate when there is a contract, a fancy piece of paper that an attorney’s been paid to stick “wheretofors” and “hereafters” all over. But what happens when you don’t have a written contract? What happens when it’s a conversation over coffee and a handshake?
Is there a contract even if it’s not written? Maybe. A contract…
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Congratulations! You just got a good paying gig that’s going to get you through the next couple months. It’s a company that pays on time and work that’s creatively interesting. A badly needed signing bonus is yours as soon as you return the contract.… Read More
Yesterday we started to dig into this humdinger of a contract.
It is, in a word, bad.
But bad things are often great teaching devices! They help us see very clearly why to do things in a particular manner or how to better approach a situation.… Read More
OK, folks, let’s talk about reading contracts.
This contract example was emailed to me the other day; no doubt you’ve seen it on other comics news sites.… Read More
