Content Writing & Copywriting Blog

A sincere client

Aug 31, 2005 No Comments »

Yesterday a client emailed me expressing regret at not sending an old payment. He also informed that he had sent the payment. I had totally forgotten about this, hadn’t sent him a follow up email, and he could have easily ignored the whole issue. But this is what makes working online worthwhile. Many a time I have read, and also written, about clients who disappear after getting the work done, without paying, or after making the initial payment. This client had paid an advance. Then I wrote an article for him. He accepted it and wanted to close the deal. I told him that he needed to pay me the remaining 50% of the amount we had initially agreed upon. No communication occured for nearly two weeks.
And then I received a notification from him yesterday. It is always heartening to note that even on the Internet, where anonymity and inaccessibility is a done phenomenon, there are people who are sincere about their work, and also value others’ time. I wanted to write about this because a while ago I wrote about some clients who never paid.

Content writing rates

Aug 23, 2005 No Comments »

Recently someone interested in giving work to me noted that my rates were too high and hence he assigned it to someone else. Not that it’s big deal, because these are after all rates that I have set after a careful scrutiny of more than a year and moreover, people do pay me these rates.
But what justifies ones rate? I think ROI - return on investment. This ROI doesn’t need to be measured in terms of money. It can also be in terms of, let’s say, image building, or anything for that matter. The point is, the person — the client here — should get what he or she wants, and as long as I’m delivering it, and as long as the client knows the value of what he or she wants, there is, there should be, no problem with rates. Of course it’s another matter if the same objective can be achieved for a lesser amount of money: after all we all want to pay less for more and there is no harm unless you are driving the service provider to penury.