From IH podcast 249: Protect your business from bad clients. Be picky.

Wise insight from the latest Indie Hackers podcast (#249), especially for busy freelancers out there. Clip below. 👇

Basically, the idea is that "bad-egg" clients aren't just a time-suck for you, they also take your most valuable resource (time) away from your other clients. They damage your entire business.

As your freelance plate fills, you can (and should) be more picky about the work you do. The "say yes to everything" mentality is ultimately not sustainable. And it takes just one bad client to understand why.

Can any freelancers relate?

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Re: the clip-- I pulled, polished, and shared the clip on a new twitter channel, "Friend of the Pod." It's basically a podcast clips page, but with high-effort curation and custom designs. Thoroughly credited, so as to be a viable promo-piece for the podcast, host, and guests involved. The goal is to share high quality, on-brand content for featured podcasts.

In addition to trying to grow the channel, I also intend to use this page as a proof of concept for a side business, which I envisioned a while back, but never got off the ground. The model resembles Design Joy, so what better clip to re-soft-launch here for the IH community.

Of course, @csallen, if you'd rather clips not be shared "3rd party" like this, I will remove it no questions asked.

If anyone is interested, feel free to check it out. There are a few clips in there now. I'd love your feedback.