Re: FLASH: Hyperride - Ft. Lauderdale

[Laura Mollett]

>> Hey everyone,

>>

>> A friend of mine did some Flash work for a company out of Ft. Lauderdale

>> called Hyperride. They didn't pay him for the work he did.

>>

>> Just a heads up.

>

> Uh-huh...

> More posts like this and I will become less worried about the decision I

> made a few weeks back (recall "my dilemma") to NOT take the job I had the

> chance to.

> Thanks!


This is really quite common in freelance/self-employed industries and

flashers/web developers seem to be having better luck with it than some

other industries. My brother, a highly experienced, highly trained

mechanical engineer, opened shop as an engineering consultant and found that

the amount of even large companies that were not inclined to pay their bills

in a timely fashion drove him out-of-business and back to working for

someone else. There's lots of good strategies for dealing - requiring a

deposit (1/3 to 1/2) upfront and dividing the work into pieces, requiring

payment for each piece in advance or upon completion (no pay, no more done),

and being careful about the clients jobs you take on. It might also help to

make sure you have enough that payment for any one job won't break you as

even the well-established ad agency I work for has had some problems with

nonpayment. Also requiring deposits upfront and dealing with freelancers is

common in design fields - clients are less inclined to balk when they've

done that before for similar work, so we're lucky in some respects :)


Laura


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