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I've always felt delicate about asking people for contracts, deposits and so forth. It seemed tantamount to saying "I don't trust you," and that felt not quite right.
Well, I've been playing phone tag for a little while now trying to get hold of a client whose wedding is next week. I figured she was going to back out, and I was right - after leaving several messages, today I got hold of her and she was like "Oh...yes...sorry we didn't get back to you...we don't want it after all." Frustrating, of course, because I spent about four hours doing sketches for her, and I turned down work to leave time to do hers. She said she was too rushed with planning the wedding to deal with it, which I hear, I know wedding planning can be stressful, but really, she might have let me know.
The interesting part is that now I feel justified in getting deposits beforehand. Not cynical, exactly - I wasn't starting out from dewy-eyed innocence - more a "the world is like that" feeling. I've always had a thing about asking people to pay me, so it's difficult for me to ask for deposits without feeling awfully greedy and cynical, but now it's somehow different, as if getting screwed were a necessary part of the learning process that I've now gone through.
Well, I've been playing phone tag for a little while now trying to get hold of a client whose wedding is next week. I figured she was going to back out, and I was right - after leaving several messages, today I got hold of her and she was like "Oh...yes...sorry we didn't get back to you...we don't want it after all." Frustrating, of course, because I spent about four hours doing sketches for her, and I turned down work to leave time to do hers. She said she was too rushed with planning the wedding to deal with it, which I hear, I know wedding planning can be stressful, but really, she might have let me know.
The interesting part is that now I feel justified in getting deposits beforehand. Not cynical, exactly - I wasn't starting out from dewy-eyed innocence - more a "the world is like that" feeling. I've always had a thing about asking people to pay me, so it's difficult for me to ask for deposits without feeling awfully greedy and cynical, but now it's somehow different, as if getting screwed were a necessary part of the learning process that I've now gone through.
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