Clients Not Paying Vendors
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- Mr_Right0
I'm going to say something here based on experience that somebody may find helpful. I have been though the OP experience a couple of times. I have also brokered some printing on my work to get the extra markup. I realized pretty quick, as some of you have realized also, that I didn't want to be stuck with a huge printing bill if the client didn't pay for any reason. Here is the way to do it: Develop a good relationship with your printer(s) (or vendors) and when they quote a job for your client have them add your markup to their quote. Then when the job is finished and the printer gets paid the printer sends you a check for your markup. You can call it markup, finders-fee, a kick back or whatever you want, but after many years as a freelancer it seems to work the best.
I'll expound on this if anyone's interested.
- I see this has already been explained in an above post, cheers!Mr_Right