Unfinished Business

The elephant in the room

Episode Summary

This week on [‘Net Awards Podcast Of The Year’ nominated Unfinished Business](http://unfinished.bz/55), [Liz Elcoate](http://twitter.com/liz_e), from some other podcast, joins me to talk about why it’s acceptable to admit when we’ve availability and to ask people for work. We talk more about having flexibility in our rates and why it’s reasonable to quote different rates to different people. We also touch on whether web designers should charge ‘rush rates’ and why working for free can be good for the soul. Speaking of the Net Awards, did I mention that Unfinished Business has been nominated for Podcast Of The Year at the Net Awards? No? If you’ve liked what you’ve heard over the last 55 episodes, [please vote for us](https://thenetawards.com/vote/podcast/unfinished-business/). After-all, this is the _only_ podcast where you hear about the things that are really important. Apes (obviously,) soap, weeing in kettles and of course Purple Rain. This episode is sponsored by [Perch](http://unfinished.bz/grabaperch) and by [Logical Elements](http://unfinished.bz/logical). Get 20% your place on their ‘PHP for Web Designers’ course when you use the offer code **unfinished** at checkout.

Episode Notes

This week on ‘Net Awards Podcast Of The Year’ nominated Unfinished Business, Liz Elcoate, from some other podcast, joins me to talk about why it’s acceptable to admit when we’ve availability and to ask people for work. We talk more about having flexibility in our rates and why it’s reasonable to quote different rates to different people. We also touch on whether web designers should charge ‘rush rates’ and why working for free can be good for the soul.

Speaking of the Net Awards, did I mention that Unfinished Business has been nominated for Podcast Of The Year at the Net Awards? No? If you’ve liked what you’ve heard over the last 55 episodes, please vote for us. After-all, this is the only podcast where you hear about the things that are really important. Apes (obviously,) soap, weeing in kettles and of course Purple Rain.

This episode is sponsored by Perch and by Logical Elements. Get 20% your place on their ‘PHP for Web Designers’ course when you use the offer code unfinished at checkout.