Do you take a down payment?
Hi everyone π€ I noticed that no one mentions the down payment/deposit, is it not how it works in UGC world? I will be honest, at the beginning of my marketing career in content creation, I suffered for a bit due to this until I started charging in advance and/or require at least a depositβ¦ prior to it, it happened 2 times that after I have worked my *behind* off (one client had me on a monthly plan), the client was just not paying and respecting the contract which unfortunately at least is Spain is not so easy to solve, the legal way can take up to 2 years as I was told, and still in the meantime I have lost lots of time alreadyβ¦ This issue was pretty much solved by implementing down payment upon the contract signing and I think it would be the model I would like to use in UGC as well, but I havenβt seen anyone else doing it or talking about itβ¦ what are your experiences? How do you handle this part?