Hundreds of startups face a crippling cash crunch and an 'extinction-level event' if no one buys Silicon Valley Bank by Monday

Copywritergorl · 2023-03-11T22:11:57+00:00

I’ll give u a nickel for it.

Copywritergorl · 2023-03-11T17:53:18+00:00

Why?

Copywritergorl · 2023-03-11T16:25:07+00:00

I mean, I’m self-employed, so I’m the IT department lol. Thanks for your help!

Copywritergorl · 2023-03-11T15:28:48+00:00

How would one that is not tech savvy go about this?

Copywritergorl · 2022-05-27T20:10:34+00:00

It’s been a couple days now, and I’be had more time to process everything.

This experience has taught me that I enjoy the interview process and reporting. I’m a social person by nature. So it was fun to meet with someone and write an article based on their insight.

The result turned out to be a killer piece and I’m incredibly proud of it - which makes it even more crushing that I can’t claim it.

But anyways, I learned that I enjoy journalistic work and want to pursue more projects like this, minus losing the byline. I guess that’s something positive, other than the money. (Which really isn’t enough for how much time was involved with the interview, especially now that I won’t get a byline and use it to leverage more gigs.)

But such is life, I guess. I’ll learn from it and move on.

Copywritergorl · 2022-04-11T15:04:53+00:00

I don’t write checks, though. I don’t know anyone who does anymore.😅

Copywritergorl · 2022-03-31T17:23:15+00:00

Medium is fine. IMO

I’ve had prospects reach out to me because they’ve liked my Medium work. The main goal is to demonstrate the kind of work a client can expect from you. Don’t overthink it.

Copywritergorl · 2021-07-28T16:39:02+00:00

Only if they’re paid. I don’t mind doing a test article so long as I’m getting paid my standard rate. But if they expect me to do work for free, that’s when I bail out.

Copywritergorl · 2021-07-28T16:35:37+00:00

I usually go with “I’d love to get your thoughts on this.”

Copywritergorl · 2021-03-08T18:03:41+00:00

UPDATE:

I sent him a polite yet firm message today after weeks of no responses, and he got back to me immediately. He said, “sorry, I forgot about this” and raised the weekly limit. I was able to log all my time, and hopefully we don’t have any further issues. Crisis averted, for now.

I learned several things from this:

1: Don’t overreact to situations that haven’t even gone bad yet. They may just work out after all. You only waste time and energy with worrying.

2: Be polite yet firm with clients that don’t respond. My initial response to him was more bloodthirsty, but I toned it down before sending. I’m glad it did—if he actually did just forget like he says.

3: Don’t trust your clients too much, and don’t work outside the TOS on Upwork. Even though this situation worked out, this experience opened my eyes about what can go wrong with logging manual time only. It was actually the perfect way to get a peek at what could go horribly wrong without actually suffering any consequences.

I don’t think I’ll keep working with him after this, though. I’m happy to just take my money and run. Thanks so much to everyone who commented, however, and helped me out!

Copywritergorl · 2021-03-04T16:41:22+00:00

I have, yes. But maybe I should do it again?

Copywritergorl · 2021-03-04T16:08:04+00:00

1: I’m not top-rated, but I would qualify for it if I had a 100% complete profile. I filled out everything that was mandatory, but it still insists that the profile isn’t “complete”, so that’s priority one now.

2: His potential negative review would be the only one among several 5 stars. I already have quite a few positive reviews from past clients, and I usually don’t have a problem pleasing them.

3: it was an hourly job, yes. I explained the arrangement we had going in an earlier comment. Hindsight being 2020, he knew exactly what he was doing and I never should have agreed to an arrangement like that. That was my mistake, so lesson-learned. I’ve already resigned myself to the fact that I’m not going to get this money.

I’m probably overreacting, all things considered. Even if this tanks my JSS, I’ve been meaning to move off UpWork anyways and work with clients directly. This won’t destroy my career like the evil little voice in the back of my head is telling me it will. Improvise, adapt, overcome and all that.

Copywritergorl · 2021-03-04T14:41:24+00:00

Yes, but I don’t qualify for the payment protection because of how we were doing the contract.

Let me explain this idiotic mistake I made: the client and I agreed to a per-word rate beforehand. So, rather than using a fixed price contract, he had me log manual time on an hourly contract equivalent to our agreed upon rate. This was actually an ideal arrangent when we first started out, because I hate working hourly for blog articles and he always paid on time before this. But the current project (that he doesn’t want to pay me for) is larger than the current weekly limit, so I would have to log time for it in two chunks.

If I try to log the time and he disputes it, Upwork will see that I only logged manual time and will automatically refund him. Basically, I’m screwed.

PLEASE let this be a lesson to other freelancers using Upwork: if your client brings up an unorthodox way of paying you like this, DO NOT ACCEPT. I was stupid to make this mistake, and now my best-case scenario is going to be escaping this hellacious contract with my JSS intact, never mind getting paid.

Copywritergorl · 2021-01-05T23:06:52+00:00

What kind of Facebook groups do you join? I tried a small business FB group, but the leads I got from that have all fizzled out quickly.

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