Online class: Dealing with Nightmare Clients -- starts this week!
Michelle
Happy 2010! I'm teaching an online class called Dealing with Nightmare
Clients in February and have learned there are still a few spaces
available. Since I'd love to see as many people benefit from the class
as possible, I thought I'd send word to all of you. (In case you're
wondering, I get paid the same amount no matter how many students sign
up.) The class description:
"Dealing with Nightmare Clients" is a four-week online course –
starting Friday, February 5! -- sponsored by the Editorial Freelancers
Association (EFA). Although I'll be delivering the lessons right to
students' inboxes, they can follow along from anywhere, at their own
pace, even if their own pace means working through the lessons at 3
a.m. on a weekend. The class will cover how to tame those beastly
clients and editors who seem all too happy to stiff freelancers, mess
with our deadlines, and contact us at all hours of the night.
Specifically, students will learn how to:
- Chase down MIA payments and ensure they don't get stiffed in the
future
- Handle runaway revisions and keep scope creep at bay
- Deal with clients who are always late with deliverables
- Set firmer boundaries with editors, project managers, and creative
directors
- Bolster their contracts with clauses that can help prevent scope
creep, deadline changes, and late payments
- Determine whether a troublesome client relationship is salvageable
Since we can all learn from one another's trials and tribulations,
I'll devote the last session of the class to answering students'
burning questions about any nightmare clients they've been dealing
with.
Class specifics:
When: Fridays, February 5 - 26 (four online sessions)
Where: Your computer. Each lesson will arrive in your inbox (also
accessible via Yahoo Groups on the web), which means you can follow
along on your own time, even if it's after the designated Friday.
Cost: Editorial Freelancers Association members $134; nonmembers $159
Register: On the EFA website; http://www.the-efa.org/eve/catalog.php
Questions? Feel free to email me
Thanks very much!
Michelle
Michelle Goodman
My So-Called Freelance Life (Seal Press, 2008)
The Anti 9-to-5 Guide (Seal Press, 2007)
Blog: http://www.anti9to5guide.com
Twitter: @anti9to5guide