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?"
Here it is, the second installment of Freelancepalooza Podcast 2010.
And if you didn’t catch Part the First, well here you go:
By the way, here is a collection of the some of the sites, posts and resources we mentioned throughout the podcast.
Outright, the online accounting resource Dylan & Erika love.
Traveling & don’t want to keep 942 receipts? Look up the per … Read More
Last year I talked Bill Mudron, Dylan Meconis & Erika Moen into doing a live two hour podcast about being independent artists on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
But they must have forgotten. Because when I asked them to do it again this year, they all said, “Yes!”
So here is the first part of our conversation about working for yourself as an artist. We … Read More
I’m sure you’ve never had this experience: you email something to someone you’re working with, ask them to review it and respond to you with their feedback/answer/opinion.
And they don’t write back.
So you email again.
And they don’t write back.
So you bang your head against the wall and hope it dulls the pain of being ignored.
I found myself in that situation today … Read More
As promised, we’re getting back into the groove of a more regular schedule around these parts. “More regular” means a couple things: (1) less than a month will separate posts and (2) between now and the end of the year, you can expect a minimum of five brand spanking new WMFH posts.
Tell your friends, family & fellow artists in arms: The Blog, she is … Read More
Interest based negotiation sounds all slick and cool when you only have a couple interests to track.
But what about if you’re a normal person and you have, on average, about two dozen interests competing for your attention in any given moment?
How do you figure out which interests to pay attention to when you’re negotiating?
And how can you tell if you’re letting irrelevant … Read More
Personally, one of the most frustrating things about negotiating is that sometimes it just doesn’t work out.
I can do everything that I think will positively influence the negotiation, that will create a valuable, beneficial exchange for both sides, and it just doesn’t work.
For me, “doesn’t work” means we don’t come to an agreement; I get less than what I was after and don’t … Read More
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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