Can they send me a brief over the weekend? Oh yes, they can.Īgency-of-record relationships and the retainers that came with them have fallen out of favour with clients. Am I free? There’s a big financial services job needed. The client dozes off during strategy slides and wakes up when I read sample copy. I end up with my feet on table, demonstrating. I tell long story about buying and returning shoes to explain post-purchase dissonance to client. That’s why I prefer to work with smaller agencies where finance still sit next to you.ĭo the pitch the agency e-mailed me about on Monday. As agencies get bigger, there’s no finance director to badger any more either. A client even suggested I use a debt-factoring service because she couldn’t get her finance people to pay me in less than six months. It also has a timesheet function – the other bane of our lives. You have no leverage at all with their finance departments. Chasing invoices with big agency groups is the bane of the freelancer’s life. One big benefit is that you are guaranteed to get paid within 14 days of your invoice. It’s basically a new app to help freelancers find work and help agencies find freelancers. No, it’s not "these boots are made for walking…".Ī lot of people I work with are enthusing about YunoJuno. On train home, I begin to formulate what might be a purpose for them. Or, in this case, their art and sole, because it’s a traditional English shoe brand. A brilliant experience – no amount of PowerPoint can ever come close to meeting the people who actually put their heart and soul into the product. If a brief is a transfer of enthusiasm, then this is one of the best ever. Spent the day in Northampton "interrogating" a brand.