Freelancers..yes, they tend to make a "pig's ear" of it

Blog revives agency vs freelancer debate :: Freelance UK

I think this enlightened chap gets my vote for sweeping statements of the week as a small agency obviously feeling slightly threatened by his client’s question as to why they shouldn’t use a freelancer half the price for a project.

His justifications for his prices were a “dedicated project management team”. I must confess I do usually delegate client work to the dog myself. “Organised admin and accounting,” well again it doesn’t matter whether I get paid or not really, whether I file the client’s brief in the washing machine or I might even forget I took on work at all apparently and swan off for an impromptu meander around Peru, as Mr Smith reckons I “tend to don a pair of flip flops and travel the world for a year.”

So excited was he by his observations of freelancers he felt like he had opened “ a tube of pringles - once I'd started, I found it really difficult to stop.”

I can imagine it must be immensely satisfying to be sat on the reassurance of specialist skills that give you the confidence peer pitifully down at other, lowly freelancers. Especially since Mr Smith’s trade is er.. Power Point and Word presentations.

Uhm. Well fair play to you Mr Smith for landing that particular job and for appearing to run a busy business. If I were that client I would only have wanted to hear what you can do better than others and why, rather than what you want the client to believe about freelancers generally..which was misguided and plain insulting to boot. Maybe some credit might be due to the majority of hard working freelancers too?

I feel better now.