Self defense for freelancers. How to protect yourself from negligent customers

When starting freelancing, many performers may encounter unscrupulous customers who do not want to pay for work or delay payment. If more experienced performers have permanent reliable customers, then for beginners the chance to fall for the bait of such negligent customers is very high. You can protect yourself even at the stage when you take the order to work, in the process of doing the work and at the stage of its delivery.

Many novice freelancers follow the path of legitimizing the relationship between the customer and the contractor, conclude an agreement, sign acts on the delivery of the project. However, this option not only surprises many customers, but in many cases is difficult to implement. After all, the contractor and the customer can be at a distance of thousands of kilometers, and it is completely unprofitable for you to go somewhere with proceedings for non-fulfillment of the terms of the contract. How then can you protect yourself from customers with bad faith?

Ways to protect a freelancer

There are several really working mechanisms that guarantee payment for your work:

  • Take an advance payment. This option is available for experienced freelancers who work with regular clients. Not every customer is ready to transfer an advance payment to an unfamiliar contractor.
  • Submit your order for review in PDF format or with watermarks on photos or videos. Thus, you can show the customer the completed project, but he will not be able to use it. After payment, you send the project in the usual format without protection.
  • Work through the exchange. This option is the most convenient, because the amount of the contract at the beginning of cooperation is withdrawn from the customer’s account and frozen. After confirming the completion of the order, the amount is transferred to the contractor.

Why it is more convenient to work through the exchange than to look for orders yourself

Perhaps, at first glance, working with any particular exchange will seem complicated. You need to register, pass a test task, earn a positive rating. However, in the long run, you will realize that working through the exchange is more convenient than looking for customers on your own. The freelance exchange “Avtor24” is one of the most organized and convenient platforms where a customer and a contractor can meet. Guarantees are provided for each of the parties on this portal. The customer can be sure that the contractor’s rating is based on real assessments of his work, as well as that he will receive a quality work done within the agreed time. And the contractor is guaranteed payment in full, provided that the project taken into work meets the requirements and deadlines that were agreed upon at the beginning of cooperation.

How to start working for the future

Freelancing is no different than any other career. Working on the Internet, you can and should also work for the future if you want to be in demand and successful in your chosen field of activity. In order to start building your reputation, you need to define a career strategy, your specialization, and the price segment in which you will work. In other words, if you know how to do complex work with a narrow specialty that is an order of magnitude higher than other projects, you should specialize in this particular area and not be scattered on simpler and cheaper tasks. Then after some time you will earn a reputation as a good freelancer in this narrow field.

If you don’t have specific expertise that is highly valued in the marketplace, you can go the other way. Take on simple and inexpensive projects, complete them quickly and fairly well. Having taken the project to work, clarify the essence with a few questions. The ability to ask a precise clarifying question will not only help you constructively understand the essence of the task, but also show the customer your professionalism. If the task does not have a specific structure or execution plan, you can, as an intermediate stage of work, invite the customer to approve the work plan and, if necessary, make adjustments. However, at the stage of discussing issues regarding the project, it is important to ask only the necessary clarifying questions that will enable the work to be done more efficiently. Do not contact the customer with clarifications too often, this will harm your reputation.

Author 24 Exchange allows freelancers to quickly earn a rating. To do this, you need to mark projects that you can take on. After you are chosen as the executor of any project, everything is in your hands, you can prove yourself as a decent and responsible specialist. This will be displayed in your rating and other customers will choose you more often.

When, after many sleepless nights, the diploma is finally ready, I want to pass it and forget it. But the university will not lag behind the student so easily. After all, the full text of the diploma was read only by the supervisor, and a whole commission will gather to evaluate it. Therefore, in many respects, his assessment depends on how a student defends a diploma.

So what is a successful defense?

  • Competent protection text
  • positive diploma review
  • confident answers to commission questions

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

Speech structure

Of course, what exactly to say in the defense depends mainly on the topic of the thesis and on what exactly is written in it, but there are general recommendations that are suitable for everyone.

  • First, we need to say hello to the members of the evaluation committee. (“Dear members of the attestation commission! Your attention is presented to the final qualifying work on the topic …”)
  • Introductory part. Here you need to reveal the topic and identify the issues that are raised in the work.
  • Relevance of the topic. At this stage, it is important to prove the relevance of the chosen topic and the degree of its development in other people’s works. Indicate the subject, object, objectives and purpose of the study.
  • Theme disclosure structure. Here you just need to list the paragraphs that are in the work and briefly describe them.
  • Problem statement. To confirm the relevance of the topic, it is necessary to state the problem and indicate debatable opinions on this matter.
  • Conclusions. At the end of the speech, the commission should hear the conclusions that the student came to in the course of writing the diploma, in which there are ways and methods for solving the stated problems.

On the one hand, it seems that it is much easier to write a graduation speech than the diploma itself. However, high-quality speech is a skillful squeeze out of the work, as well as its competent presentation. And it often happens that a diploma is written with the highest score, and a student gets a worse grade. Therefore, if there is a lack of self-confidence, you can order a speech on our website. And then the probability of failure due to bad speech will disappear. After all, we give a twenty-day guarantee for the work, and if something does not suit you, you can demand that the author finalize the order for free. We make sure that students are satisfied, so if the final version of the work does not meet the stated requirements, you will get your money back.

Formal requirements

When writing a speech for a thesis, you must also take into account that there are purely formal requirements.

  • Time. Do not forget that there are many students, but only one commission. Therefore, the time for a defensive speech is regulated and ranges from 5 to 7 minutes. At the same time, you should remember about the time that will be spent on commission questions.
  • Intonation. Where, no matter how on the defense of a diploma, is it important to win over listeners? Therefore, it is better not to read the speech monotonously, making accents with intonation.
  • Style. When presenting a speech, it should be remembered that the main goal is understanding on the part of the commission. Therefore, you should not be too smart, but you can’t switch to colloquial speech either. In this matter, you need to observe the golden mean.
  • Pronouns. As in the diploma itself, it is important to remember during the defense that although the author of the diploma is clearly spelled out, there are a lot of true owners of knowledge reflected in the work (the authors of all the sources the student relied on plus the supervisor), so first-person pronouns are not appropriate here.
  • Questions. After the end of the speech, questions from the commission will inevitably follow, and you need to be ready for them. Suggested questions should be written down in the course of writing the thesis, work through all the questions that arose during the pre-defense, and you can also look at the questions at the end of chapters from textbooks on this topic.
  • Pre-protection. In such a matter as defending a diploma, it is better not to be presumptuous and neglect pre-defense. On it, you can practice giving a speech and write down possible questions from the audience. This will allow you to feel more confident in the official defense.

Of course, these are only recommendations, and no one forces you to strictly follow them. However, the rejection of some positions during the defense will create additional questions from the certification committee, which is not always loyal. Therefore, it is best to think through all possible questions and answer them in advance in a defensive speech. Then the teachers will have a minimum of questions, and they will be grateful for the saved time.