By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:39:40 +0000

I don’t ever give clients my IM information. That started when I ran my PR firm. I simply let them know that’s not how business is done in my industry, and I prefer more professional (and better-documented) forms of communication. I never had anyone refuse to those terms because they insisted on working via MSN or something. In fact, I don’t even accept calls when I’m working unless they’re previously scheduled. The ringer’s turned off. I’ve found over time that most clients actually appreciate that when it comes to writing. As much as they might like to get through immediately (and most don’t bother with the phone anyway), they do understand that would also mean I would allow others to interrupt me with calls while I’m working on their projects. Explain the benefit to them well, and you usually won’t have too many arguments. :)

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:51:35 +0000

I think what you have wrote for 6/29 is wonderful and so true. There is this one site that actually sends out several jobs per day, but they have 500 word articles they want written for .50 or $1.00 per article. This is ridiculous, then they expect you to write about 20 or so per day. I can write a lot but not this much and get anything else done and I don’t want to work all day for $20.00. And what about the personal agenda issue? I guess my biggest peeve for this kind of people is the ones that want to IM every few minutes just to say, “how’s it going”? Well, it would be going a lot faster if they weren’t cutting into the writing time with every sentence. Just had to get that off my chest.
Love your site, always useful.
T.

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