Rate check 🟢 — landed a new client at $95/hr for React + integrations work, NA-based, async, no calls. Up from $75 last quarter. Anchoring high in the proposal email worked.
Anyone else seeing 30-day net terms on enterprise lately? Used to be 14. Threading my new payment-terms email below — feel free to lift it. Works ~80% of the time to get them to 21.
📥 Templates dump: my 3-email sequence for chasing overdue invoices without burning the relationship. Day 7, day 14, day 30 — escalating tone but never threatening. Saved me ~$8k in write-offs last year.
🚩 Red flag log: a "Crypto venture" client asked for revisions outside scope seven times after final delivery. SoloX risk-flag was right — it pinged me on day 3. Saved me a week of unpaid work. Posting their domain in #red-flags so peers can search.
Q1 wrapped: $48k revenue across 9 clients, two retainers. Made the call to drop my lowest-margin client and pipeline filled the gap in 11 days. Sharing the math + the "graceful exit" email I used.