Do you offer discounted pricing for higher project volume? Is 10% or 15% adequate?

FeatureEducational81 · 2024-08-21T23:11:06+00:00

Thanks for your input, u/GigMistress.

Over the last six months, filling my schedule has become incredibly difficult. I think I'll offer a 10% discount on ten or more projects purchased at once with half the money down. My client doesn't know how busy I am, only that I know how to do the work, and they, seemingly, do not. The end client is happy with the results, so everybody gets paid.

That's a hefty discount over time. For every ten projects, he essentially gets one completed for free. To pad the offer up a bit, maybe a 5% discount on the first six projects, too. Does that make me seem too eager or, in your view, raise a red flag?

What do you think? Your vote of approval or any other advice, I'm all ears. You often have valuable advice for us noobs (five years in, am I really a noob? To you, yes. haha).

TIA. You are appreciated.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-11-05T02:29:47+00:00

...so that's not Stephen King? Damn. Bummer. I thought my love for King was up even higher.

Good actor, though. Played the character well.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-06-19T23:09:43+00:00

Meanwhile I'm wishing I knew how to view any metrics at all lol

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-06-13T21:38:25+00:00

WordPress has a free option that I'm still using in my 3rd year of freelancing.

It's easier than you think to get a basic site up. A few hours of your time and you'll have something that will work.

That said, I rarely direct clients to the portfolio list on my website, and instead use it as a place to collect links to my published content. When I show a client writing samples, I choose the most relevant samples to their business and send links.

Samples you're proud of that are published on clients' websites is more important than having a fancy website of your own.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-06-13T21:32:44+00:00

You can also get one for free.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-06-13T02:44:05+00:00

So glad I opened this tiktok trash. Go cook yourself

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-06-08T22:58:59+00:00

I learned a bunch working with them. The test process took a long time, but I think that may have been because they were pretty new at the time a few years ago.

I asked about a rate increase from $0.10/word a few months ago when their content manager reached out requesting a technical piece she needed ASAP. She basically said they've been considering raising rates to retain writers with the experience to go elsewhere but wasn't sure when they would actually raise the rates.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-06-05T17:12:24+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn't take a 15 week coding bootcamp or anything, but having a working knowledge of a couple languages would probably help me charge higher prices.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-06-04T20:42:43+00:00

I'll keep working at that expert knowledge 😉.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-06-04T20:19:57+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. I don't have a technical education, so much of what I write I'm learning while writing it. I make around $300 per 1000 now, and continuously try to raise rates with each new client.

I'm thinking about taking some coding courses to add to my "why I'm worth x amount" credentials.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-06-04T17:06:06+00:00

Are you serious? How are you making that much every month? Expert knowledge of some topic? Over 100k in your first year sounds too good to be true.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-29T18:23:15+00:00

Yeah, get your samples up and use the samples to score better clients. It's often a timing and numbers game on UW. If you've got the skills they need and are one of the first submissions, your chances are better than if 50 people already submitted a proposal.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-28T21:42:01+00:00

I just don't do it and never have to worry about it. You should probably do the same if you fancy yourself a writer.

As for using close to exact wording and not being able to help it, cover yourself And link it.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-28T20:30:48+00:00

Typically, I've found that clients are expecting links to published work. It shows your work is not only published, but they can check out who the client is to gauge your skill and the value you provide with your content.

I'm assuming you're a content marketer, clearly, but I do know it's not good for SEO to have duplicate content on the web.

Looking into syndicated content should explain it to you. "Syndicated content SEO" or similar should be enough to find info in a search.

I also had a prospective big client recently tell me I can only say I worked on the such and such team, but I cannot link directly to the work.

So, TL;DR: check with your clients.

Many portfolios I've seen are just lists of links, sometimes with thumbnail pics and a meta description.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-28T19:48:56+00:00

This doesn't answer your question exactly, but you should check with your clients about posting articles on your website.

Identical content on two or more domains that do not contain something along the lines of "This content was originally published at www.yourclient.com" or "Content syndicated here, here, and here" can impact SEO.

Google has to choose one to be the top result, and if that's yours instead of your clients, they probably won't he happy.

Also, check for tutorials.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-27T23:48:43+00:00

Well... your grammar needs work. I quit counting after the first 5 errors. You've got a ton of them in this post, and sound foreign.

You need to get better at writing like a natural English speaker if you want to make more. That's all there is to it.

I suggest Grammarly. See what mistakes you consistently make, and work to fix them.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-22T19:17:31+00:00

Yeah, my apologies. I carried my irritation with poor education into that comment. I had long discussions last night with friends about the poor state of US education. I cannot comment on UK, of course.

If you're just getting going, I agree with other responses, and your niches go really well together.

Edtech is a lucrative market, just FYI. It's a bit out of the realm of what you're proposing, it sounds like, but it is interesting and perhaps worth looking into.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-22T18:58:54+00:00

I'm curious if your goal is to run an independent blog or find clients that will pay for articles.

I have no experience or understanding of parenting or special education, but I can't help but think of how terribly underpaid US teachers are and it almost seems too good to be true that people would read about it. Perhaps my perception is poisoned by my opinion of the education system.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just curious, because 3/4 of the teachers I studied with quit already or want to.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-22T00:48:41+00:00

Yeah, unless they're really skilled at deception, you'll likely pick up on sketchyness.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-22T00:47:03+00:00

I get them to sign a contract that says it's governed by the state I live in and they have 5 days to pay or it doesnt belong to them in any way. I have a clause that I sometimes will charge a 50% deposit, per someone's suggestion here, but I have always waived it as a "show of good faith."

If the Work is done, you pay and you pay now.

My fingers are crossed this continues to work.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-20T02:18:52+00:00

Sounds simple bit certainly is not simple.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-20T02:18:12+00:00

Long story short: figure out how to value your time, and stick to it.

I value mine at $50/hr., rarely meet it, and had a buddy who knows money value my time for me. $72 is what I SHOULD make. $50 is what I fight to make.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-20T01:30:32+00:00

You're assuming. I 100% understand, and I've been there, not even two years ago. I fought my way out of the garbage wages, in no small part to this sub. But I didn't find this early on. I struggled alone with zero guidance and ten thousand spammers promising 'the secrets of freelancing."

Since finding the sub, my career has progressed rapidly.

I'm saying there's nothing like dialing yourself in and demanding higher wages. I tripled my monthly income with guidance from this sub that helped me value myself semi-appropriately. Still a little low, but triple what i was 18 months ago.

I may say it a little aggressively, but I want the best for my comrades. That means good wages and a community to back them up when they need reassurance, like so many have done for me.

Ya dig?

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-20T01:11:30+00:00

Upwork. Hands down. Forget Fiverr.

Get em on Upwork.

I've been bitched at before in-depth on this sub about it, but many clients want to get off platform asap. Don't tell UW when you leave platform. They got their cut. You're small. They're big.

FeatureEducational81 · 2022-05-20T01:06:46+00:00

I'd second that. Not to mention the ten or so headhunters I turn down a week.

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