Re: Providing sample mock-ups to potential clients

I have my email setup to require receipts because this is one one I can
verify if  my client(s) has received an invoice or other pertinent
information I have sent to him or her.   He/She cannot claim to have not
receive an invoice  or proofing material if I have a receipt saying he/she
accepted it.  Because many of my clients are hundreds to thousands of miles
away, this method is the least expensive and has proven productive.

It is like a return receipt on a postal letter.

Joyce Taylor
jtaylor(at)taymade.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tanya" <tjtmd(at)attglobal.net>
To: "Taylor-Made" <jtaylor(at)taymade.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Providing sample mock-ups to potential clients


> From the graphics list...
> Why on earth are you requiring a receipt to be sent back to you from your
> post?
> Never seen anyone do this before
>
> Taylor-Made wrote:
>
> > Hi, Maureen.  Wow, what great advice everyone is giving.  I am learning
> > myself.
> >
> > Be honest with them.  Go back to them and state that upon reflection of
> > the type of work that is being done, a deposit is going to be required
> > before you can do any graphic work for them.  Explain the ease of
> > copying from off the internet once something is uploaded to a server.
> > Copyrights are great and it would be wonderful if people were respectful
> > enough to abide by them, but...they don't always.
> >
> > Here's what I also incoprporate into my contract:  the property the
> > client gives me to use (content, logos, pictures, grpahics, etc.)
> > remains the property of the client.  Any logo, graphic, content I (from
> > my own stock or I design) use to enhance the site remains the property
> > of my company unless they want to purchase said items.
> >
> > I ask for 50% up front before I design a site.  I have to put the web
> > pages up because some of my clients are thousands of miles away and this
> > is the only practical method of them viewing and okaying the work I have
> > done.  I explain that it is too easy for someone with even some
> > experience to copy the web site and use it as their own, so with at
> > least some money up front you won't be white-washed of all the fees you
> > asked for.  So far, I have been fortunate not to have clients who stiff
> > me.  I have about 50 clients at the moment and I did this for all of
> > them.  Even the ones in my home town
> >
> > Always incorporate into your contract a disclaimer clause and a clause
> > stating that court action will be taken if fees are not paid.  I also
> > put into my contracts that once I start designing a site, whether it is
> > on the web or in the design stage, that fees are not refundable.
> >
> > Joyce Taylor
>
> --
> To visit my homePage (boring...but childproof)
> http://www.interlog.com/~karma/frmHPC/Tanya.html
> And for more *art* visit
> http://www.interlog.com/~karma/frmHPC/PicturesOfPlaces.html
> For thumbnails visit http://www.interlog.com/~karma/frmHPC/Thumbnails.html
> but bring a book......hours to d/load...
> http://www.interlog.com/~karma/Holding/Vineyard.html#horses
> (New) bring a novel to read
>
>
>

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