Ask Rezzz

I’m going to get up on my soapbox here for a minute, so if you don’t want to hear it, scroll down a little bit.Over the past decade, I’ve run into many leads and clients that have had terrible experiences from flakey freelancers who have either disappeared, communicated poorly, didn’t deliver a project, or just didn’t set the expectations the client had.If you are a freelancer in business, please, please, do right by your clients. Be honest and don’t get in over your head.If you find yourself in a sticky spot, there’s nothing that communicating to the client can’t fix.If you are a freelancer and asking questions like “how come clients don’t respect my value?” or “how do I charge more than bottom dollar hourly rates?” The big reason is that of these flakey freelancers who don’t do right by their clients and then those clients are jaded and don’t want to be burned again.If nothing else is taken from this, please communicate clearly and often with your clients so that it raises the bar for all of us in the servi