Can You Avoid Having Your Efficiency Questioned by Having Flat Rates?

About this episode

The episode discusses how to manage difficult clients and the implications of using flat rates in freelancing.

Occasionally, you might find yourself with a whale client, or at least a profitable one, that treats you poorly and shows no trust in you. How should you handle this? Join us to learn more. View this podcast as a video on YouTube. Links of the week: Enov8 published a helpful guide to data masking tools (and they also define data masking, if you're interested). Our friends over at CSuite Content published an interesting guide to becoming a thought leader. And finally, Tricentis put out a round-up of AI testing tools.

People in this episode

Host: Erik Dietrich

Topics covered

• client management
• freelancing
• efficiency
• flat rates
• trust issues

Keywords

• efficiency
• flat rates
• freelancer
• client trust
• business strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Enov8, CSuite Content, Tricentis

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