No I haven’t quit this blog. 
Just the other day, I started offering my services as a general web graphics designer . Quite a quick and an easy way of making money I thought, and I was rite. 1-2 hours work and I could make an easy $5-40. Now, four days after this project started, I’ve decided to almost completely stop. I haven’t got fed up, far from it. It’s just that I started to notice that all of this work is swallowing up the time I usually spend updating and promoting this blog and a few others I run. I never set out on my quest to make money online by spending all of my time locked down in Adobe Photoshop, I intended to do it by creating blogs and providing information.
If I’m honest, i guess I was getting a bit pissed off with a couple of my customers too. Once you’ve created something for them and they’ve paid you, they automatically think that they should get priority. On Saturday I created a logo for some guy, he liked what I had created for him and he very kindly paid me. He then asked for 3 or 4 more designs. I agreed. About 2 hours later I received an email off this person telling me to hurry up and if I didn’t, he would tell everyone how bad my service was. I tried to explain that I have other people waiting and that his new banners and logos should be complete within 24hrs. His reply started with ”but I just paid you”. Yes you did, but only for the 1st banner I’d created. Anyway, I’d had enough after reading those five words and I simply deleted and blocked his email address.
I don’t think I was been harsh, I work on a first come first serve basis. Not ”you will get what you want when you want just because you’ve paid me” Anyway, as from today I will only be doing custom graphics if people contact me directly through this blog. I’ve asked for all of the posts I’ve created on different forums to be deleted or blocked. It’s nice to be able to concentrate solely on blogging again. I think my biggest mistake was running around promoting my services on as many forums as possible, I really thought I could cope running 2 very demanding projects. I think maybe if I had the time it would be quite possible, but I’m not making enough money to be able to quit my day job. Actually, I probably would struggle even if I didn’t have to work, promoting a freelance site and actually completing the jobs is probably more time consuming than running your blog. There wouldn’t be enough time in the day to give both 100%
Maybe some people are able to do both things? If you can? I would appreciate some tips.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 am
Hi, nice blog!
I do quite a lot of freelance and you’re rite its very time consuming.
There isnt really any tips to give you, it all depends on how quickly you can complete your clients work. I take my time and try to give the design 110%. ive found in the past rushing has often caused me to make mistakes or make rubbish designs. this means the person wont come back to you again.
All the best
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:53 am
Wow that’s one rude customer! I guess when you deal with people you get whackos sometimes. I think you should raise your rates and take on the best jobs possible.!
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I jumped into freelancing and jumped right back out really quick because at the time I worked a day job and made money through affiliate marketing. I thought I could add to the money situation, but actually I started to make less because clients are demanding S.O.B’s and took away from my affiliate marketing time. So I quit. I respect anyone who sticks with it, but I couldn’t. Thanks for the logo. I just sent you payment.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
thebaglady - Yeah, very ride. The only downside to raising your rate when you’re new is that you might not be able to attract customers. I was trying to build a small client base and slowly raise my prices as time went on. No need to worry about that anymore though
Stephen - Yep, pretty much the same reason I quit, but I was leaving my blog behind. Something that I never ever wanted and want to do.
Thanks for the quick payment.