But now this is a very important lesson. And I can give you a few pointers, the red flags you have to look for. But you have to build your own experience in this. I'm sorry, you will get hurt a lot of times before you learn to pick out bad clients. So what are the red flags you should look for? One of the biggest points for me was always problem with the contract and the prepayment.

I always ask prepayment, I will talk about this in the payment but it's very important for me, and if someone is already haggling in the beginning with my price, or doesn't want to sign a contract, or doesn't want to pay me prepayment, that's a huge, huge sign for me that later on there will be problem with this guy. And if I don't listen to my previous experiences, and they go into the business, most of the time, I have to see that suddenly my instinct was right. Someone who doesn't want to contract We usually run away with your money and doesn't want to pay you. The people who are hard to reach, even at the start of the project will be the same, possibly during the whole project. If you don't fund the project, which is dragging on for months and months without proper payment, don't work with people like these people who are pulling the disappearing act, don't work with them, because they will do it in the middle of the project has simply disappeared with your money.

I mean, you put in so much work and time and they just disappear. It's not fair. Is it? Also a sign for me it's more of a bad personality time that he is talking bad about previous freelancers, as I said in one of the previous lessons, when you talk bad about someone behind his or her back, it means you will talk bad about me as well when I'm not present. And that's, that's not very polite. And this means that this person is usually doesn't take responsibility.

Thing that he's blaming others. So if you work with him and the project goes sideways, he will blame you. Which leads to, he doesn't want to pay you or break the contract. I'm sorry about talking. So negative stuff. Just now when you are starting out freelancing, but you have to be aware of these.

You might meet a lot of possible clients who are acting weird. And if they are acting weird for you, don't work with them. Also the client who doesn't have a clear plan, who doesn't have a clear plan or not having any belief of what is the task, and he is coming and forcing you to say a price. As I said in the client meeting lesson, don't tell a price at the first meeting. Go home and calculate where the task is clear. When he is not telling you what to do.

Just don't go with it. Don't Don't say a price. Ask him what is the task. If he is doesn't telling you it means that he will be not responsive during the project and we will not help you and the project probably gonna fail. I'm talking about all my friends experiencing music and copywriting on design, programming. This can happen anywhere.

So there are a lot of signs that can show that the possible client or client is bad, there are everywhere, rotten apples, and it can happen a lot of times that you meet possible clients who are not so good for you. But most of the time, and we experience more and more. Most of the time, you will meet great people and work with them and get paid properly. And the more you work with the best people, the people who are fitting you, the more great referrals you will get from them. And that's also so now you know, more or less how I point out best clients, you have to work out your system for that. Listen to your gut.

Look for red flags. Learn from your mistakes as a closing For this lesson, I have to tell you something, you should do a reality check sometimes. If the only thing you do is complain about how bad are your clients or your possible clients, then the problem is the only common thing between those clients and that's you. So you should do the reality check and say, Okay, if all my clients are bad, then I am doing something wrong. I am not leaving the freelance life I want maybe it is my fault. And if it is my fault, it is my responsibility.

And I am able to change what I do to get better clients to get the clients I deserve and leave the freelance lifestyle I really really want to so everything is bad all the clients seems like bad apples. Do the reality check.