What am I should doing?

Hi zeasondesign,


A few quick suggestions,in random, you can change or modified it as you wish:

- Use a screenshot or other less quality resolution format when you send for approval.

- Put Watermarks of your company on all works before full payment.


- For higher price service, 20% upfront, 30% upon 1st draft, and remaining 50% before you send them the original format.

- Create a Black List page with details of the company, individuals, and the work you done for them so you can help prevent other victims.


- And off course, you can simply charge them the full upfront if you are very confidence of your work or that is only a small % of people doing that.


-Also you can also give "incentive" like a lower price or future discount coupons for those who choose tp pay 100% upfront.


-I had seen people who charge upfront, have terms like "up to 2 revision" for the project. I think this is also a good practice. It helps to prevent abuse of revision, which can be quite a headache for designer' service. And you can always gave more revision as stated in the terms as and when you feel the client is a good client, and it will become an extra service for them.


I will post more when I have more ideas.

Cheers
Jason Ser

You should not work diretly with clients online.

I would suggest you work through a service like GURU.COM or ELANCE - they will give you the protection needed and clients are far less likely to abuse it.