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Herding clients? Get a good contract.

by Matthew Stibbe on January 21, 2010

I wrote a post two months back about when writers become lawyers. Sometimes writers are from Mars and clients are from Venus and we need some structure to the relationship.
John McGarvey has produced a really nice plain English contract for copywriting. I do things a bit differently but we share the same objectives:

Reducing scope [...]

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When writers become lawyers – how to agree terms with a client

by Matthew Stibbe on November 20, 2009

Every freelance writer has a story about the project from hell. Mine involves writing a 7,000-word in-house magazine in a month. By the third issue, thanks to unreasonableness from the client, it was 14,000 words in ten days. For the same money. There wasn’t a fourth issue.
So how do you avoid situations where the [...]

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