{"id":2650,"date":"2018-01-15T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T17:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2019-07-21T06:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T12:42:43","slug":"2650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2650","title":{"rendered":"My “getting paid for the work” story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consulting is about getting the work, doing the work, and getting paid for the work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is my “getting paid for the work” story.<\/p>\n

I was a contractor helping build out an ecommerce site for a startup.\u00a0 I had been introduced to this client by a colleague, and felt like I had a good relationship with the technical lead, “Bob”.\u00a0 We were making progress on getting the site built out and I’d worked a couple of months with them–they were my primary client.\u00a0 I believe I was billing semi-monthly.<\/p>\n

One fall day, I got a note from “Bob” that he’s leaving, and I should send all my future invoices to “Joe”, from accounting.\u00a0 I seem to recall that the project was over budget and was being shut down.\u00a0 I had one outstanding invoice for about $4,000.<\/p>\n

“Joe” wasn’t very interested in making me whole.\u00a0 He probably was interested in trying to keep the company afloat and keep cash in the company’s pockets.\u00a0 I was, however, interested in collecting that money.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have much leverage since the project was shut down and my primary contact had moved on.\u00a0 What I did have was persistence.\u00a0 And I was also able to get “Joe”‘s skype handle.<\/p>\n

Every two weeks I would re-send the invoice, always with the same format:<\/p>\n

Hi,<\/p>\n

I just wanted to send you this invoice for work I’ve done previously.\u00a0 It was due on XX\/XXXX.<\/p>\n

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.<\/p>\n

Dan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then I’d ping “Joe” on skype to see if he had received the invoice.\u00a0 Needless to say, it didn’t take long before “Joe” wasn’t on skype very often.\u00a0 I still continued to send the invoice to his email address.<\/p>\n

Every year I give holiday gifts to my clients<\/a> as a way of saying “thank you”.\u00a0 I gave a box of chocolates to the ecommerce startup that year. Even though they were stiffing me for thousands of dollars, I still appreciated the money they’d paid me and the work they’d let me do.<\/p>\n

Within two weeks, I was paid in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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