Agency
A contract can serve as a source of protection for the client as well. This partially explains why clients are more likely to trust a business that uses a contract.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
Baldwin understood the singular importance of the novel, because he saw the dilemma his country faced as essentially an interior one, as his fellow citizens suffered from a poison that began in the individual spirit and then made its way into politics
Colm Tóibín • The Private Life: On James Baldwin - The Paris Review
that you are serious about being paid, just as serious as you are about delivering the results
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
there is a huge area of blank space beside my schedule.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
The stopwatch starts when they decide to find a replacement for you, and it stops when they find one that meets their new standard. Boom. That amount of time is a direct measurement of how compelling your positioning is. If you are positioned well, then they find very few substitutes.
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
Your only real control is to withhold your expertise. And although withholding expertise is the only leverage real experts have, it can be a powerful one, indeed.
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
choosing the opportunities that allow you to compromise less and be more of an expert.
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
I also don’t require a new contract for each project. My contracts are written, in a sense, to be a meta-contract that oversees the entire relationship through multiple projects. Once my client has signed a contract with me, they’ll never have to do so again.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
say, “See, this is what we agreed to!”