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You deserve better clients, maybe I can help!

DeChamp on August 17, 2018

The rant! I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that just about everyone in our field, will eventually have a client, that has the...
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Yaser Al-Najjar

Superior writing!

Love also this one: reddit.com/r/freelance/comments/8g...

Especially the part: "You're a business, not an employee"... cuz most people do freelancing with and contact people as "X person" instead of "Y business" and then nag about the client being an a**hole.

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DeChamp

Thank you so much! I appreciate that!

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Abdu

Once I said a client, who was not responding for two weeks, that I would charge him $x.xx if he didn't reply me in xx:xx times. He reported it as a threat immediately, and my Upwork account was down the very next day.

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DeChamp

I'm sorry to hear that. I am sure that will happen, but if you use a platform you have to keep those things in mind. I haven't ever used a platform, so I was not in risk of having it shutdown. It's sad that people can be spiteful.

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Abdu

When it comes to a platform, things get out of the control. Most of the platforms value investors, clients for us, rather than freelancers. It is always risky. It also hurts freelancer's reputation.

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jazkh

..and not everyone is lucky to have a wife as good as yours =)

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Abdu

I am, and she tells me right away that why I am behaving so bad.

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DeChamp

That is very true! :)

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dibugreen

thx for share ..