Ever since I joined this forum, people have been telling to charge what I'm worth and work with good people.
Because I only just started working on my business after leaving the rat race, I lack the experience, so, a lot of mistakes were made and will continue to be made.
One of the worst mistakes I made was I undercharged, even worked for free, and chose to work with really bad people.
Today, I got the wake up call I deserve when a client outright disrespected me during a meeting.
I was doing really cheap programming work for this guy. I built him a really nice custom ecommerce site with a ton of fancy features just because I wanted such a project on my portfolio. I'm not even going to say how much he paid me because it's too embarrassing.
Today, this same guy, instead of being grateful, told me that I'm pretending to be a programmer. And you know why? I simply refused to add a complicated feature to his site for free. A feature that would take 2 months to implement.
And you know what happened? He and his business partners were laughing their a$$es out while I sat there with my dumb face wondering what I did wrong.
So, right there decided that I don't need this and I had done enough boot licking.
I multiplied my original embarassing price by 10 and told them it was going to cost this much and it's either take it or leave it. Obviously they didn't agree, so we're working on terminating our contract and I feel very happy.
Lesson learned: Just because you're a new business doesn't mean that you need to allow people to shit on you.
Because I only just started working on my business after leaving the rat race, I lack the experience, so, a lot of mistakes were made and will continue to be made.
One of the worst mistakes I made was I undercharged, even worked for free, and chose to work with really bad people.
Today, I got the wake up call I deserve when a client outright disrespected me during a meeting.
I was doing really cheap programming work for this guy. I built him a really nice custom ecommerce site with a ton of fancy features just because I wanted such a project on my portfolio. I'm not even going to say how much he paid me because it's too embarrassing.
Today, this same guy, instead of being grateful, told me that I'm pretending to be a programmer. And you know why? I simply refused to add a complicated feature to his site for free. A feature that would take 2 months to implement.
And you know what happened? He and his business partners were laughing their a$$es out while I sat there with my dumb face wondering what I did wrong.
So, right there decided that I don't need this and I had done enough boot licking.
I multiplied my original embarassing price by 10 and told them it was going to cost this much and it's either take it or leave it. Obviously they didn't agree, so we're working on terminating our contract and I feel very happy.
Lesson learned: Just because you're a new business doesn't mean that you need to allow people to shit on you.
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