Friday, February 24, 2017
This Tool Helps You Create a Freelance Contract
twocents.lifehacker.com: When you freelance with a client, they typically give you a contract to sign that protects them in case things go south. You might want to have your own contract, too. The Freelancers Union & NYC startup AND CO have made a tool that helps you create one for free.
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I think that this is really cool and a truly great service which has been developed. I think it is perfect for people who do not have the money for a lawyer – or freelance enough to justify the money for one. Also, developing a way for early relationships with a client to be more smooth and less stressful will end up just making the process better. I understand the first commenter that a lawyer will most likely do a better job; however, not everyone has the need for a lawyer, but everyone deserves the ability to lay out their guidelines for their own work and to protect themselves from doing things they do not want to and should not be doing given their job. Also, people might not have enough faith in their legal knowledge to feel comfortable writing one themselves, but this service provides them with a way to do so.
My mother did freelance work for a while when I was a child and after sharing a roof with a freelance worker for several years the only thing I can recall is just how sticky situations can get. I remember difficult clients and confusing taxes that freelancers have to essentially stumble through to understand, and stumble my mother did. This template would have be a huge help to her before she went back to a stable job, and in the near future it will be a huge help to me. Freelancing is frustrating and stressful and simple formatting tools like this save a lot of time and energy, something freelancers tend to be short on. I hope to see more tools like this for freelancers in the future, maybe along the lines of customer records or some sort of system to keep income information as straightforward as possible. And when my mother re-enters the freelance field I hope that tools like this will be enough to help keep her there.
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Notes:
“Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish!” Proverbs 31:6
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