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Know Your Values & Have The Mindset To Keep Them
Knowing your personal and company values will ensure you are attracting and keeping the clients you want to work with and grow your business.
One aspect I’ve come to learn with freelancing is to take time to understand your values.
Whether it’s your own values as a freelancer, or company values for an entrepreneur, knowing this is crucial for various reasons.
The reason I bring this up today is that I was approached with two opportunities this morning: one I accepted, and one I rejected.
The one I rejected is consistent writing work for the foreseeable future. It’s on a topic I’m familiar with and don’t mind writing about. The pay is within my own pay range that I’ve set for myself as a freelancer.
The reason I turned it down is that I feel the potential client only cares about getting the work done quickly and with quality. There’s nothing wrong with doing work fast and to the best of my ability, but it’s rather strange that the client in question isn’t a person of quality or someone I’d want to produce content quickly for.
Why?
Because I don’t even know their name nor their business. It’s from a group that I used to…
