Should you work for free?

by Jessica Hische (via swissmiss)

Problems with working for free:

• you spoil the market, people think what you do come easy and expect the industry to deliver for ridiculous ‘prices’
• people take advantage and keep coming back for more
• you devalue your work. Or if you look at it another way you over-value your work to the point of ‘priceless-ness’
• because your ‘clients’ keep coming back you compromise on the time spent on paid work
• sometimes the accounts don’t tally. Oftentimes you don’t get paid for your consultation time, the meetings you go into, your transportation, costs of supplies/material
• sometimes you don’t even have creative freedom, or work gets shot down
• you still get ridiculous timelines
• you may not appear to be taking your work/business seriously
• little business-to-business relationship building. Think about it, once you cannot offer the free service any longer, you could pushed aside for someone ‘affordable’

If you know of more reasons, let me know - I’ll add that to the list.

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