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3 Reasons Why I Fired My Client
When is the right time to cut a client loose?
I am a freelance writer and I fired one of my most consistent and long-term clients.
Am I crazy? I don’t think so, here are three reasons that I fired my client.
1. Late Payments
This one is obvious, but I would send an invoice due in 30 days and I wouldn’t actually receive payment until 40–45 days in. Was it a huge issue? No, not for me, because writing is not my main source of income.
However, for a writer that is only earning money through writing, late payments could be problematic.
The issue was that the company that I was writing for had a slow process for approving payments as they paid out all billing through a 3rd party vendor. Late payments alone wouldn’t make me fire a client, it doesn’t make much of a difference to me just so long as I get paid.
2. New Management
The company that I was writing for was growing quickly. Which is great!
But it also means that the person that I started working within the beginning had moved up in the company and would no longer be overseeing my work. Instead, they had hired a new content manager who would be handling all of my work and communication.
