10 Absolute NOs! for Freelancers Tip on Behance Network

This list nails it. There are a few others, but this NO list works well. And I have heard them all. Read the whole thing.

10 Absolute NOs! for Freelancers Tip on Behance Network:

"5) Can I pay for my e-commerce site from my website sales? No.

I hate to be the pessimist, but when I am asked this, I want to tell them that they most likely won't make any money so they might as well ask me to do it for free. Yes, I know there are exceptions, so sometimes I will ask them about their business, marketing, and revenue plans, which 99% of them don't have. They just thought that selling t-shirts would a novel idea for the internet. I usually go into a spiel about having to support me and my family, and I can't do it with speculative work -- I then recommend Yahoo! Shopping or CafePress, and 9 times out of 10, they never get their site up anyways."