Explain Your Invoices

Invoices

Just like when you get your car worked on and you ask the mechanic to explain the invoice, you should also provide some explanation as to what each individual item means.Today I received an email asking what it all meant and it dawned on me that itis not that the client doesn’t trust you, they just simply want to know what they are paying for.

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A little thought on Speculative Work

Cry BabyConsider this scenario:

Chris from creative fruit designs gets contacted by a new clothing store for a redesign of their logo that for the purpose of this scenario we will call “New Threads”. Chris who never really got any large clients like that gets excited about this job, furthermore New Threads informs Chris that this is a competition and whoever designs the best logo gets picked to redesign the logo. Chris designs something great and then gets rejected. Nine months later Chris is walking by a new clothing sore in the mall called New Threads and notices that their logo looks familiar and is in fact the same exact logo he designed for them. Now a nasty lawsuit has to ensue which leaves Chris with no more money and no clients who want to deal with him anymore.

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