Freelance Radio, Episode 33: Informal Versus Formal Quotes
The thirty-third episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, the panel (John Brougher, Dickie Adams, Kristen Fischer and Von Glitschka) talks about formal and informal quotes and proposals. Subscriptions to the podcast are available via iTunes and an archive of all podcasts will appear in the podcast section. We hope you enjoy it!
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The Shownotes:
- Theme of the Episode: This episode’s theme is formal and informal quotes and proposals, including the advantages and disadvantages of both and more.
- Mailbag:Tim has an audio question about screening bad clients.
- Freelance Radio Recommends:
- Dickie: Fun YouTube app YooouuuTuuube.com.
- John: Computable knowledge project (that could change everything) Wolfram Alpha.
- Kristen: Online magazine for creative professionals Upper Case Magazine.
- Von: Typography website/resource Typography.com.
- Outro: None this week, keep on submitting!
And that’s the episode! If you like it, please feel free to rate it in iTunes or your favorite podcast aggregator, and don’t forget to email your questions/comments via the Freelance Radio form. If you’d like to record a question/comment or submit an original outro song, you can upload them via this form.
Find out more about the panelists at the following sites:
- John Brougher, podcast host and new media/communications specialist: johnbrougher.com; John’s Twitter is at twitter.com/johnbrougher
- Dickie Adams, designer, photographer, technologist, jack-of-all-trades (and master of all): twitter.com/dickieadams
- Kristen Fischer, writer and author: kristenfischer.com; Kristen’s Twitter is at twitter.com/kristenfischer
- Von Glitschka, illustrator, designer and so much more: glitschka.com; Von’s Twitter is at twitter.com/vonster
” the theme of this weeks episode for this weeks episode.. did I mention that this was an episode?”
Just a little friendly advice from you #1 Fan.. Your intro seem to break the flow of the show with the .. I guess you could call it High ‘ Keyword density’ .. From one podcaster to another..
try an intro that feels like a better flow.. and substitute repeat words with alternatives.. Just wanted to throw that out there before you accedentilly made it a habit..
Love the show guys!!
and as always Dickie = CareBeareSharing clown posse Superman!
Hey Von ‘Giggity’ Glitschka!
Great idea with the pdf link to your pricing information that you use with your small biz potential clients.. I would love to do the same thing for my SEO services..
Anyway I could download a copy of yours to give me some guidance on the structure?
I see how this could save so much time with having to give a ‘ pitch’ to everyone with a internet connection.
Why it doesn’t show up on iTunes?
First time listener of the podcast here…and honestly you just about lost me by taking 5 minutes to get to the reason why I started listening to it. I’m really not interested in printer woes….
Great podcast guys
GO CANADA
Is there an issue with the RSS feed? This seems to be a regular occurrence where the show will be published but the RSS feed will not be updated. Is this intentional?
Good show, could you guys add the length of the podcast near the in-browser player.
Boyink — for future reference you can safely skip the first 3-5 mins of this podcast. The intro music and life updates usually fill this time.
Just about to download and put on my phone for the commute home
I sure wish the team would respond to my posts.
I sure wish I could help but I have no technical capabilities, I just speak. Try to be patient with the guys–they work full-time too on other things and it’s not like this is the only thing we do. They’ll respond:)
Nick,
I don’t want to post the link publicly but if you email me I’ll share the link with you. It’s main purpose is for specific small business owners whose first impression to me is that they may be problematic or just a hassle to work with so instead of investing the time I just give them a specific URL and if they are fine with the provided information than I’m fine working with them.
Just shoot me a message at: von (at) glitschka (dot) com
Regarding the opening commentary and discussion I’d agree it’s probably a bit long winded and we could cut that down. Than again it only takes a few seconds to scrub the timeline and get past it too.
Actually if anyone ever has a question just shoot me an email I answer all of them, it’s hard for me to monitor postings on this site though.
Thanks.
Von
Mike, Nick, and Boyink: How true. Guess we need to try a little switch up there – perhaps run a contest in the first five minutes.
I think the dynamic was a little off because this is the first time we recorded late at night (for east coasters). Keep sending us your thoughts – we do try to listen, even though we feel like we are talking all the time.
This was funny, kind of relevant
The Vendor Client relationship – in real world situations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fprovideocoalition.com%2Findex.php%2Fmcurtis%2Fstory%2Ffunny_video_discussion_vendor_client_relationships%2F&feature=player_embedded
Awesome!, Thanks for the reply guys.. It made my day for sure!
I’ll shoot Mr. Giggity Glitschka an email as well.
Nice to Put a face to Kristen voice as well. It’s a nice one at that
Thanks Team!
Hey Nick, just FYI, one reason that we use the word “episode” so frequently is that our podcast is biweekly usually, so we can’t refer to time without being somewhat careless. We can’t talk about “this week” or somesuch because that’s not really the case. Just FYI.
Installment , edition, show ?
Great show guys, learned a lot new stuff today.
How you deal with one line quotes via email and if you ask for more details they don’t respond.
E.g. I need a website for my business, please send me a quote.
I get a lot like these, any specific solution to this??
Great episode! I try to give a quick informal quote to weed out people who don’t have the budget – and then a formal agreed upon quote before work is started.
Great Episode, i liked