If you are trying to run a business you need customers. The thing is if someone is not willing to pay for what they get they are not customers, they are beggars. Worse they are usually demanding beggars.
What would your clothing woman say to you if you said, "I can't afford your children s clothing. I really like them though. So, if you will let me have them for about 1/2 of what they cost you, I will buy a bunch of them from you. If you won't sell them to me for that, I have a sewing machine and will make them myself."
Well, that is essentially what she said to you.
Think about it.
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That does not mean you can not make some kind of deal with her, after all you are both starting out and things are tight. An exchange of goods and services based upon fair prices can work. (You do have three children that need cloths, right?)
The thing about being in business, is you have to keep your work from being devalued. That does not mean you can not work something out, it only means you have to get fair value for fair value. Sometimes I do charity work. I do not do it for free. I invoice it for my regular rates, then credit their account with a donation equal to the invoice. I mean, right there on the invoice they can see I gave them $300, or whatever. That is not the same thing a working for free. My work is not devalued even though I am not really in business anymore. Besides it is tax deductible when I do it that way.
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Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
Hi all, well, it is 2.12am here and I am heading for bed after a long night of invoicing, contracts, photoshopping files for ftp'ing etc.
I just wanted to tell you all about my rollercoaster of a day.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
