Paypal Now or Wait Forever

For those of us who freelance for a living we survive from job to job, literally! Waiting an excessive amount of time to be paid for our work can be a hardship, so much so that I have seen fellow freelancers resort to using credit cards to make ends meet.

Looking Past The Paypal Fees

Some freelancers simply abhor the idea of using Paypal to secure what is due to them. They see the fee charged [2.9% plus 30 cents] coming out of their invoice and cannot get past the idea that they will receive less money than what was charged.

A word to my harried fellow workers: Paypal now or lose the use of your funds for thirty days or better. Sure, people should pay up when invoiced but we know that isn’t always the case. Instead of waiting, why not contact the employer and ask them to get their credit card out and pay you via Paypal? My thinking is this: 97% of outstanding funds in hand now is better than waiting for 100% of the funds that may take what can seem like forever to show up.

Smokin’!

I have been surprising myself these past few days by getting in such a writing groove that I am churning out more articles per day then ever before. Yes, more doesn’t necessarily mean terrific quality, but each of the articles I have written is certainly readable and interesting enough on its own merits. I am writing for a web client who wants some “basic fare” stuff to help raise SEO for his site.

To keep my wits about me, I do write a personal article at least once per day that I reserve for myself. Typically, this article is on a subject that I am passionate about and it’ll probably not see the light of day unless someone wants to pay my magazine rate for it. Is it magazine ready right now? No, but it can be in fairly short order: I need to add a few paragraph headers, clean up some grammar, and fine tune a wee bit of the verbiage. After that, who knows?

Just call me “Smokey” cuz I am smokin’!