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Contract Questions

by Tiger_Claw
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Greetings,

I am writing up my first contract for my first client and am curious how everyone else goes about their contracts, etc. Do you guys do a seperate contract for each service? Website design, SEO, hosting, etc? Do you just do one large contract that contains all of the information above?

So far I've decided to do make a contract for each service I am providing:

Hosting
SEO
Website design

Thanks for any advice you guys can share. This place is such a wealth of information and I wouldn't be where I am today without it.

- TC
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  • Profile picture of the author ViralSO-CEO
    The best practice is to have:

    1) Top page with basic summary of terms, duration, and cost.
    2) Second page all of the basic legal language.
    3) Third page is the scope of work.

    This will allow you to have a simple contract that you can make adjustments to for future new clients. To answer your question directly... One contract per customer that includes all services.
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    • Profile picture of the author ewenmack
      To make it simple for your clients to understand,
      write out lists of what tasks will be carried out.

      An example would be...

      3 articles written per month
      All articles distributed to a minimum of 15 places
      1 press release written per month
      Press release picked up by a minimum of 39 news sites.

      Joe at http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ice-today.html
      gets a very high client pick up rate by letting the client know that he/she can cancel at any time.

      He also has a very neat way to set up the monthly billing...all without ever meeting them...and they called him without paying for advertising or posting on classified sites.

      So back to your contracts, language is very important.
      A letter of understanding is a lot softer and doesn't put a road block on coming onboard.

      Once again Joe has it smoothly mastered.

      All the best,
      Ewen
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  • Profile picture of the author Headfirst
    Come up with a standard contract form. Either have your lawyer draw it up, or get some boilerplate contracts and do some copy and paste, but make sure you have your lawyer look at it first.

    If you don't have the scratch for a lawyer, find one that needs some SEO or website work and barter. Lawyers are usually open to barter.
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  • Profile picture of the author akazo
    Also, most contracts only have a signature at the end. be sure to get in the habit of putting an initial each page just so that nobody can change one. I never had a problem, but it is good practice.
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