What is your favorite part of freelancing VS working for
somebody?
My favorite thing about freelancing vs working from somebody
is just this being able to work. Wherever is work outside as people that you
know are glued to our laptops? We always have to be inside or an office so
you're called in to medium freelance or you work remote. You can take meetings
from outside like virtually anywhere where you have Wi-Fi or hotspot connection.
I like the remote freelance life because you're completely free.
Freedom to go where you want thank you guys good morning
good afternoon welcome to your day or evening depending on when you're watching
this we're here at our favorite spot where we do tons of work from every single
day the jungle looks like that today. We are gonna be talking to you guys about
freelance yeah which is kind of the whole purpose of this channel but all the other
things sort of make up the world the freelancing and working for yourself when
it comes to freelancing I'm a big believer in retainer one-off projects.
You can make a good amount of money but I
really do believe retainers are better than one off projects you know it
depends on the amount of money and stuff like that but still you can get a
retainer and it's a long-term retainer it makes your life a lot more predictable
and you don't have to stress as much about where your next job what I like to
do with those types of work I work with retainers a lot for clients. They can
greatly range in price what I like to do is in the contract I like to have a
90-day review so we have a set amount of money for the thing.
We review it after 90 days to see where expectations are
being met where they're exceeding or where things maybe mean our legging and
from there. You can always negotiate hopefully for more money depending on the
type of work that you're freelancing for sure when you do retainers here's one
thing. We always learned we've learned the hard way and sort of like just an
amazing way while we're doing it as projects always almost take longer than
expected.
When you're estimating a one-off project price no matter how well
you scope it it's gonna bleed oh so if you have a really reasonable solid
monthly retainer for X number of hours if they keep expanding the project or
the scope of work or the amount of pieces of content their videos or features
in your app whatever it may be you keep getting paid you don't just like lose
out on that money because the scope grew you literally keep getting paid.
What
happens a lot of times too is if they really like your work there's always more
to do and they'll keep you on the retainer but if your project cuts off and
you're done and you get paid that's a moment for them to reevaluate and we
think ok we still want to use this person OK do we have to scope out an entire
new contract that's a whole process and we got to get the funding approval but
if you were to get the approval for the monthly retainer it just can keep on
going and generally it expands way way more money.
What you would have got
by a one-off contract now that you guys understand we love retainers there's
another really important thing when you're doing retainers this is a thing you
should do anything you should not so first is when you're on a retainer it's
really important to make it feel like you're a part of the team right you got
your in their slack groups your and their messages like be as deeply involved
as possible because then it's harder to get rid right when you're embedded in
their processes and their workflows it's hard to just eject your number two is
this is what not do not do this sometimes as developers or contractors we think
it feels cool so like talk about all the other projects we're doing or how much
money we're making on these other projects and stuff like that they don't want
to hear about that the only thing it does is make them think that you have other
important things going on do not involve their company they're come is the only
thing that matters to them they could give two craps about the other projects
you have going on do not talk about them do not refer to them and do not lease
God do not brag about them while you are not there company our work on this act
like those if you are the they are your world and you're the only one working
with them and you have anything else going on that's what they want that's
what you need to do just remember that
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