Samuel Murray wrote:
Robert Rietvelt wrote:
Why should I accept a job that cost me money? I am in the business to make a buck, not loosing it. I think this is a sound strategy. Don't you?
It all depends on how much it's costing you, and what you believe you're getting for the money that you're paying/losing. As I said before, marketing costs money, and I would write this off as marketing. Paying $5 for a high possibility of increasing one's exposure within an agency very much is actually very cheap, compared to other marketing methods and their relative odds of success. What is your marketing budget? And what do you hope to achieve with your marketing budget?
'There's no telling whether the next job they have in my language combination might be a nice fat one.' Indeed! But looking at the signs, I don't expect so.
Your experience may have been different, but my experience is that a low rate first job is not necessarily a good indicator of whether an agency pays bad rates or offers bad jobs. Some agencies only accept jobs from high-paying end-clients, but some agencies accept jobs from both low-paying and high-paying end-clients.
Sorry for the late answer. Of course I do marketing, but I am not so sure your marketing strategy will work with agencies that are using their own plattform, complete with a "first come, first served" policy. There is no personal contact!
Furthermore, I fear that once you accept a lower rate, the agency will stick to it. Getting your "real price" in a later stage can proof to be very hard to realize. Isn't that the reason why we warn newbies to not to sell themselves too cheap?
So in short, in this case I unfortunately have to disagree with you.
[Edited at 2019-01-28 15:20 GMT]
[Edited at 2019-01-28 15:21 GMT]
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