Anne: Good for you for saying no to the client. It’s important, especially when we’re in business for ourselves. The last thing we want to do is keep running around the track.

I ghostwrite books and I have learned to help the client succeed, and not bail on the long project, which happens.

My contracts include a section on client responsibility – a natter on their need to be responsive.

That’s fine as far as it goes, but I may have stumbled into the real secret:

Demanding monthly payments rather than tying pay to my performance. Knowing they have to cut me a regular check seems to focus their minds more on the project.

Thanks for the post,

In the first case, I think people don’t realize that blogging takes time and effort which I could be using on other products. They’re getting the content for free, so they’re going to have to put up with ads so I can recoup the time I spend researching, writing, and keeping the site in order. And in the second, I think they just don’t respect the content creation process at all.

Professional trust-building and setting out clear statements of intent are crucial in everthing from blogging to coaching.

I really enjoy this blog, Sean. It always amazes me that I don’t find all of the Collective Inkwell and Blueprint crew over here. So much of your content can be applied to other areas as well as ghostwriting, like you mentioned in point 1) Be observant.

If I Twittered I would Tweet!