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Christine Andersen wrote:
Would your client be patient if you did not deliver on time, as agreed?
Come on, folks, take a professional approach. You deliver your best quality and you expect to get paid. On time in both cases. If the client doesn't see it that way, cut the crap, threaten to take them to court and never work for them again.
In fact I very rarely have payment issues. I enter into realistic contracts with professional clients. I deliver my part of the deal. They pay. We thank each other nicely and sometimes repeat the process. I hope that is how it works for most people.
And probably that is the most important thing I have learnt - take your client and yourself seriously and treat their text, however small, with respect.
| | | | Mario Freitas 
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Is it some kind of new rule to post only questions that alow 183 different answers and suggest 3 possible answers to vote? This question is perfectly answerable, put totally undue in a Quick Poll kind of thing where the percentage of the answers is counted.
| | | | Erzsébet Czopyk
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SITE LOCALIZER | random things | Jul 26, 2016 |
1. You have to always be very careful with new clients and colleagues, even if they seem to be very kind/respected/well-known etc.
And you shall always have a B plan, because even the most reliable colleague can be sick, have a car accident, whatever may happen in the life, the deadline promised (or whatever promise to did) to the client shall be always met. There fore, it is better to make a realistic promises even if the clients push you towards impossible.
2. If anything ru... See more 1. You have to always be very careful with new clients and colleagues, even if they seem to be very kind/respected/well-known etc.
And you shall always have a B plan, because even the most reliable colleague can be sick, have a car accident, whatever may happen in the life, the deadline promised (or whatever promise to did) to the client shall be always met. There fore, it is better to make a realistic promises even if the clients push you towards impossible.
2. If anything ruins, you are all by yourself and you can rely on yourself only.
3. If the client cheated you once, he will (try to) do the same again (even if he says it was the one and only time, never again, blah-blah-blah)
(The addition of my son who walked into my room a saw this: Mum, there was a famous sentence in the movie "The Saw".)
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
4. You can exploit yourself but the consequences are more expensive than the money you gained with your work.
5. Respect others to be respected. (surround yourself with people who are smarter than you to create a good group. Diversity is always very good if you can manage the differences. There is no need to be a leader. What is important to be a solid cornerstone.)
6. NOTHING is dearest than the family.
[Edited at 2016-07-26 06:42 GMT]
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Teresa Borges wrote:
1. Never accept more than you can chew...
2. Never put all your eggs in one basket...
[Edited at 2016-07-25 08:55 GMT]
And I would add to that, being flexible with my schedules. Thus, having other income-producing projects to work on to fill in the gaps where translation some day may be on low-volume.
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