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Any Droid — Backup Android Messages With just 1 click and a few minutes, it completes back up all your texts. Also support backing up your photos, videos, contacts, notes, calendars, documents, apps, etc. Joy Taylor. So this editing went on under the authorization and direction of Srila Prabhupada. The Bhagavatam set that you purchased from KrishnaStore.

So it is completely authorized by Srila Prabhupada and is identical to the Bhagavatam volumes that Srila Prabhupada gave most of his classes from. There is nothing so original as the set you have in existence at the moment. You are very fortunate to have it. They are now out of print. We have a few sets left in Europe only. If it is good enough for Srila Prabhupada to read personally himself daily and give his classes from it should be good enough for you to read…. English is the main language for India now.

It is available printed for sure in Marathi but you know when a book is translated into another language of course that is very good and very important for the people who only speak that language. But really in the translation process something is lost. As far as I can see there is no problem with the files. Try to download them again and let me know if you are still having a problem.

Can I order this set of books in India? Is PDF version is available to download in Tamil language? Your service to the Krishna Consciousness movement is inestimable. I have left, and I feel inspired for that decision. I would loose my life and soul if I were to compromise on principles which are keeping me cognizant of the need to protect the creeper of devotional service, and not allow it to get mixed up in karma, jnana or yoga.

But somehow we have to remain in Krishna consciousness. So that is quite a challenge. Really this is best done in the association of other devotees, it is very hard to be a devotee surrounded by non-devotees. But somehow that is the position we seem to be in at the moment so we have to push on and try to become Krishna conscious and try to serve Srila Prabhupada under these difficult circumstances.

The solution is chanting Hare Krishna ultimately. So we have to actually get a taste for chanting Hare Krishna and have to actually do it constantly. It is only the sankirtan, the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra that can counteract the bad effects of Kali-yuga.

So we have to chant Hare Krishna or we will not be even able to counteract the evils of Kali in our own lives, what to speak of saving the world, which, at some point in time, someone has to do, again.. Hare Krishna.. I have hard copies though. Can you please help. Please let me know. I am a swaminarayan devotee of BAPS. In the shikshapatri manual for code of conduct and bhakti it says that a devotee should read the tenth canto of the srimad bhagavatam every year.

But it is not complete here. But I need the tenth canto. What should I do. Firstly your instruction from Swami Narayana is wrong. This sort of stress on reading specifically the Tenth Canto of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, giving special stress to reading the Tenth Canto over the other Cantos is completely wrong, completely bogus. So have to read all of the Bhagavatam, starting from the First Canto, in the order that it has been presented.

Not that you put special stress on reading the Tenth Canto. You have to read and assimilate all the other cantos first before it is possible for you to appreciate and understand the Tenth Canto.

That is a summary study of the Tenth Canto. Can anyone tell me the links of pdf files of Canto 11 and 12 without the poisonous commentary.

There is no use in reading Bhagavatam without commentary by a pure devotee of Krishna. Srila Prabhupada has given us enough to keep us constantly engaged in hearing about Krishna for a very long time. Putting Hriydananda godas on the same platform as Srila Prabhupada. I really can not imagine that there are many idiots out there any more who can accept such insanity.

I heard Prabhupada say today that you can fool all of the people for some time and you can fool some of the people for all of the time but you can not fool all of the people for all of the time. So the bottom line is forget reading anything that is not written by Srila Prabhupada.

Srila Prabhupada is a pure devotee of Krishna and he has given us absolutely everything we need to become completely Krishna conscious, to become pure devotees, and to go back home back to Godhead and to take the whole universe with us.

We simply have to surrender to Srila Prabhupada and take advantage of his association in the form of his transcendental books, his lectures, his conversations, his press conferences, his morning walks, his letters and all the other transcendental nectar he has left for us to raise us up to the platform of pure devotional service. This krishna consciousness movement is the only movement which can guide a person for the path of purity and selfish less service.

Not only towards god and his devotees but also to the whole world and people living around here. Thank you so much prabhu for this wonderful arrangement of the original works of the master All glories unto Prabhupada, all glories to Sri Krishna, all glories to Madhudvisa dasa!

Can you please tell me what are the most serious changes the BBT has made, other than grammatical or spelling corrections? What are the most drastic changes been made, by which the entire original meaning got lost?

If you could give me some examples, and preferably an overview or a link to where I can find this information that would be very helpful. Thank you in advance,. Please read all the articles there. Of course they have started slowly.

Still they have made thousands and thousands of significant changes that really alter the meaning of what Prabhupada says. Sometimes very dramatically changing the meaning, sometimes completely reversing what Prabhupada said….

Thanks for your fast reply, prabhu. I will give it a serious look and may contact you for further clarification, if needed. Meanwhile I have sent you a message on an other article. Hare Krishna Madhudvisa dasa ji, One more doubt. Bhaktivedantaswami correct? Are they not perfectly divine as they are expected to be? And what are Ritvik and other foundations.? Please kindly forgive my ignorance and sorry if I had spoken anything wrong.

Do kindly reply me and make me understand. Thanking you, Hare Krishna, Balaji. They are changing his books to try and reflect the changes they have made to the eternal and unchangeable philosophy of Krishna consciousness. You can not reject and change the instructions of your spiritual master without becoming completely demoniac.

This is demoniac. This is the tendency in history. When the empowered acarya leaves his preaching organization becomes overtaken by demons in the dress of devotees.

There is not much that can be done to stop this. The demons are very keen to take over the position of guru and if there is no powerful acarya to keep them in check then it is very hard to stop demons from taking the position of guru and exploiting the innocent disciples. So we have seen this happening in ISKCON now for many years and it has been the cause of spiritual ruination for so many unfortunate devotees. They can not help you to become Krishna conscious but they are very qualified to hinder your natural progress in spiritual life.

Srila Prabhupada is living in his books and other recorded vani and you can personally associate with him by reading his books and hearing his recorded classes. This is direct and personal association with a pure devotee of Krishna and this sadhu-sanga with Srila Prabhupada has the power to elevate you to the platform of pure devotional service.

Hare Krishna Madhudvisa dasa ji, I understand and accept thoughts.. But as a devotee of Sri Krishna, shudnt we try to do something for this. Because I hav seen many of my friends goin there. Of course they went only for Darshan of Sri Krishna. But what about the other unfortunate souls who as you say will be misguided under the name of Krishna consciousness. Thanking you,, Hare Krishna, Balaji. What we should do is become pure devotees of Krishna ourselves by surrendering to Srila Prabhupada and following all the instructions he gives us while we read his books.

Then Srila Prabhupada and Krishna will give us the intelligence so we will know exactly what we should do…. Hare Krishna Madhudvisa dasa ji, I hav downloaded the 10th canto volume I have started readin now only. I feel if someone teaches it for me I can understand and grasp the details in more detail and can get benefitted. What can I do? He will teach you. To teach you…. The subject matter develops through the various cantos, you will not get the benefit of the tenth canto unless you have already properly studied all the other cantos.

Hare Krishna Madhudvisa dasa ji.. Thank you so much for your reply. I hav read the introduction, life history of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and the first chapter Questions of the Sages. With your help and guidance I shall try to read all the cantos of Srimad Bhaghavatham. After reading the book I had a feel of interest to learn more about Sri Narayana.

Thank you, Hare Krishna Balaji. I plan to start e-learning course on-line for free of charge for the benefit of devotees and others in general.

In other words, can you grant me the permission? Thanks to your idea of publishing Srimad Bhaghavatham in pdf form for the benefit of the world. Kindly do reply. I can not see any reason from our side why you should have any problem downloading SB tenth canto Volume 2. Thanks a lot for publishing Shri Bhagvattam. This is such a great service. Due to your continous efforts many people are getting direct benefit.

Your efforts are bring dharma to everybody. I am currently studying Srimad Bhagavatam one chapter a day. I have read somewhere online that parayan of Srimad Bhagavatam lazily continuing till a year is Tamasik.

But I am not studying it lazily. I am studying with immense faith of the Lord. Should I be worried about the Tamasik nature of my study. Should the parayan be completed within a week or a month? Thanks so much for the files. Thanks so much and very much appreciated.

Here is the final comparison using the proper rendering methods for a Digital Remaster, and the cleaned up files you have available for download. I just want to add that my previous message was about some files that were posted before these ones available now, which had too much loss of quality compared to the original high resolution files.

I just now downloaded the most recent available PDFs you have made available here and they are actually rendered well and of good quality. Also 10th Canto you posted has great quality.

Yes, we have done a lot of work to improve the quality of the Srimad-Bhagavatam and Caitanya-caritamrta PDF files to be the best possible quality. Dear Prabhu thank you for uploading the books of srimad bhagavatam it is extremely beautiful to see it and also to read.

There are only 10 cantos and 13 chapters but in vedabase there are extra two chapters should i read them also or just upto Thank you for your valuable time. The important thing about a spiritual book is the author. Only a pure devotee of Krishna can understand Krishna and therefore only a pure devotee of Krishna can describe Krishna. We know that Srila Prabhupada is a pure devotee of Krishna and we have seen by practical example that his books have the potency to awaken the dormant Krishna consciousness that is within us all.

Srila Prabhupada stressed just before he left his body that he did not feel any of his disciples were qualified to continue the translation of Srimad-Bhagavatam. They imitated Prabhupada but they were not pure devotees of Krishna like Prabhupada, they did not understand Krishna so they had no power to explain Krishna.

Milk touched by the lips of a serpent has poisonous effects. So reading the Bhagavatam which is not translated by Srila Prabhupada [after Canto 10, Chapter 13] will have poisonous effects on you, even though it appears to be the Bhagavatam… The poison is very subtle but it is also very deadly. Then you can read the Bhagagavatam again.

I beg you to reply to my comments. Please tell me what I as a beginner in devotion should read. I really trust your commitment to Srila Prabhupada.

Your servant, Santosh. Why did Srila Prabhupada spend so much time and effort writing all of these books? I have one query:-Can you please tell me if it is okay to take print out of these pages instead of ordering the hard copy of Bhagavatam?

I beg ou to reply. I also wrote a comment yesterday. But it it not visible in your website now. What happened to it? That is what it is for. Please do it. Print out the pages and read them….

If you read them aloud also, including chanting the Sanskrit verses, it has more potency than just reading it in your mind. Reading in your mind is also good, but if you read it aloud then you are chanting it and hearing it and Krishna consciousness is actually realized through chanting and hearing much more than thinking in the mind.

Thinking in the mind is of course smaranam, remembering, one of the nine processes of devotional service, so I am not in any way minimizing this, but hearing and chanting is better and that includes remembering also.

So if you read aloud you are performing simultaneously hearing, chanting and remembering, which is much better than just remembering…. Prabhu,can you please tell me if Srimad Bhagavad Gita is available in pdf format? And, will it be okay to take a print out of the pages and read them, instead of purshasing the books? I will be extremely grateful if you can provide me with a kind reply. There is no Canto 13, only Srila Prabhupada only translated up to 10th Canto Chapter 13 so that is all that is available in English in an authorized form.

Please read and study the 12, pages Prabhupada has already given us in Cantos Please let me know if there is any auspicious time or muhurta to start reading Srimad Bhagavatam.

Srila Prabhupada only translated up to Tenth Canto Chapter After that there is no bona-fide translation of the Srimad-Bhagavatam in English. I cannot think of reading incomplete Bhagavatam. Is it how its followed by everybody, Or, any alternate procedure followed? Kindly let me know. It is not incomplete. It will take you a long time to read this, then there is about 8, pages of Sri-Caitanya Caritamrta, pages of Bhagavad-gita, and so many other things.

Thank you encouraging me to carry on with my will of reading Srimad Bhagavatm. I am currently in my first reading on Sri Bhagavad Gita and it has utterly influenced me. I have totally changed my way of life and consciousness.

Start reading it now. I am very grateful for these downloads, but I wonder if the 10th canto will be available for download in future? Thanks, thank you very much. Hari Bol!! It is there now, Can you look up something for me? A few lines into the Purport. It says:. Therein lies the problem. This is not an error and the current Bhagavatams still are the original pre Bhagavatams.

At least as far as I know so far the BBT have not changed them although they want to change the Bhagavatam and may have done that in their most recent printing, I do not know. These four orders of life: brahmacary, grhastha, varnaprasatha and sannyasa are social orders. It is student life, married life, retired life and renounced life.

So these are social orders. Students are one social order, married people are another social order, retired people are another social order and the renounced order is another social order. These orders are part of the Vanrasrama system which is about organizing the society in such a way that it is conducive for spiritual advancement.

So the whole Varnasrama system is a social order which has as its aim facilitating the spiritual upliftment of all the people…. Hare Krishna Community. I have reduced the size of Canto 1 and 2.

The size of Canto 2 is now 62MB by using acrobat Cleartype, dpi. Text is searchable. Eg Original version: Lord Brahma said: At the time when the unlimitedly powerful Lord assumed the form of a boar as a pastime, just to lift up the earthly planet, which was drowned in the great ocean of the universe called the Garbhodaka, the first demon Hiranyaksa appeared, and the Lord pierced him with His tusk. Lord Brahma said: When the unlimitedly powerful Lord assumed the form of a boar as a pastime, just to lift the planet earth, which was drowned in the great ocean of the universe called the Garbhodaka, the first demon Hiranyaksa appeared, and the Lord pierced him with His tusk.

This is not a change. There is absolutely no change to the meaning of the text. Prabhupada wrote a number of letters to the editors requesting corrections be made to the first edition Bhagavatams so you can not expect that all the printings will be absolutely identical to the first editions. So please read the books. I extracted images from last file, they were MB.

So if you have created smaller. The text is not searchable as I dont have the proper software for it. However, it is adequate for viewing on computer screen. The big PDF files are good as reference, but it might be difficult to open them at older or slower computers. I request that the images may be optimized in size without losing quality and put individually so that we can see image of any page without downloading the whole file.

Scanning or photographing is the best way to keep the books in computer format because it is free from missing texts and spelling mistakes. Here are some instances of missing texts: 1. Srimad Bhagvatam SB 5. In at NY airport, just after Rathayatra, devotees inquired from Srila Prabhupada about the nature of the confusing maps in the just released 5th canto.

After these many years I have been given the means to define the original nature of these maps scientifically. But it requires that the information be viewed under a very different set of circumstances where a complete washout of the western education that all western devotees were subject to and see the information through that lens.

The current intellectual house of mirrors does not allow modern man to conceptualize outside certain restrictive definitions ie that what is not happening in the astronomical sky today of planets and their relationships — did not happen in ancient times. The sky has not changed much in the last years. What is in the FIfth Canto is an accurate description of the universe we live in.

But as you say we have all been brainwashed by the current world view and most people, devotees included, can not accept that the actual universe is so different from what they have been told it is like since birth…. But actually the current scientific climate is such that if you could actually explain it in a way that they could understand it at least a small percentage of scientists would be open to it and many would be curious to investigate it.

The problem is we do not understand the universe as it is described in the Fifth Canto and we can not explain it to the scientists. Not that the scientists refuse to accept it. Our model has to explain everything that we observe and it has to explain it better than their model. But we do not have that model. So how can we expect any scientist to take us seriously?

The actual universe according to the Bhagavatam is dramatically different from what we have come to believe it to be according to the scientists and astronomers. For example there is only one sun in the whole universe and all the things we call stars are actually just like the moon. The earth is in the center of the universe and everything is rotating, not around the earth, but around an axis which goes from the polestar out to the mountain range half-way out the universe.

And everything is moving gradually because the whole thing is moving around the mountain range gradually to make a full circuit in days…. So it is a very nice system that actually does perfectly explain everything we see. On vedabase. Why is that? I searched on Wikipedia it said Srimad Bhagavatam has 12 cantos. Please clear this doubt. Did you forgot to upload the last two cantos or there were originally only 10 cantos translated and explained by Swami Prabhupada ji?

They are cheating Prabhu. After Canto 10 Chapter 13 there is no Prabhupada Bhagavatam. And ISKCON are such rascals that they are not even prepared to tell the readers who it was that made these translations and purports. But if someone who is not a pure devotee of Krishna, someone who still has material desires to fulfill, attempts to write Vaisnava literature it will fail. His books will not have any potency to deliver the transcendental knowledge to anyone, rather, even though they may seem very bona fide and very spiritual and even the philosophy in them may be correct, but because the heart of the author is not clean if you read his books the result will be that your heart will become contaminated, not purified….

Also, is this original edition available for sale too? Therefore, could you kindly publish the original versions of all the books by Srila Prabhupada as you have done with this original edition of Srimad Bhagavatam? Many of the books printed by the BBT are still original.

Up to recently the Srimad-Bhagavatams were all original. But Bhagavad-gita and Krsna Book have been changed a lot and Caitanya-caritamrta is also changed but less. Prabhupada wrote some canto 1st of SB in India , they were i think printed by Gita Press , is it true?

He collected the money for the printing himself by selling his Back to Godhead magazine and getting some donations from various important persons and businessmen. I believe the Gita Press gave Srila Prabhupada some donations towards his great mission of printing the Srimad-Bhagavatam but they did not print it. Prabhupada printed it himself in Delhi.

It is not that Prabhupada wrote the First Canto of the Bhagavatam twice. He printed the First Canto in India so he would have something substantial to take with him when he went to the Western countries to preach. So when Prabhupada went to the USA on the Jaladutta he took many cases of his Srimad-Bhagavatam with him and later on shipped more to the US when he was more established there. So Prabhupada did not write it twice.

He did, however, write the Bhagavad-gita As It Is twice. That is because the original manuscript he wrote in India was stolen. As far as Prabhupada never criticizing the Gaudiya Matha, that is a lie. Not forgetting the fact that you can use it to make forms that can be easily filled with any standard document viewing application.

Actually, it is very easy to complete this task. The following is what you will need to do. Step 2 : When the site opens, you should see an option that says select file. Click on it to choose and upload the Word file you want to convert. The store owner collected the money and then seemed to think I collected the money.

I gave her copies of all transactions, clearly stated what was owed to me and she refused to pay. So I created a check in the amount owed, written out to me from her and taped it to my computer screen.

I received the check in the mail within the month. So grateful to the Law of Attraction. A man with a construction dumpster-rental business could not get paid by a residential customer. The customer had rented a jumbo-sized dumpster for a home remodel project. When the rental period was over, the dumpster was removed. When the customer called to complain, he was told that it would be removed when payment was received.

I get a lot of my clients through Elance…so before I ever submit a proposal I look at their work history i. Referrals are a little bit trickier to do background checks on…but you can generally get a good feel for the type of person they are after one short conversation. It also automatically adds late fees, which are a percentage of the overall invoice.

Before using Freshbooks it took much longer to get paid. So these two features have really helped! We have done it on occasion and more often that not it leads to extended terms, chasing money, etc. Not what I got into business for. Now we have clients accept projects, issue final invoices and if they want it up immediately — they better peddle their bikes down to the office as soon as they can.

I take money up front, as a rule. I am a website designer and seo consultant. I think where I live they are the breeding ground of dishonest people; however for long term clients of mine I will make a payment plan and help them out.

First, time clients I ask upfront cost for websites or half depending on their attitude. You can tell when a person is shady or unsure about things, but I give them the benefit of a doubt. SEO is different once work is going its stays in the net cannot take it back; you either lose your money or gain some.

I had one client who cancel on the 3rd month in which is fine and I told her that these links I cannot take it back and it will get drop if not maintained.

She told me yeah, but I found someone can do it far less. I wish her luck. I explain to her that SEO is a long term investment you cannot really pay someone that offers dirt cheap SEO to your business. What works for me is education to the clients very well make them feel more comfortable that they are in good hands.

This day I do not jump the gun on new customers and just get their cash. I evaluate, train, educate, show them options, pros and cons etc. Always have a contract in hand signed and returned. Always follow up with clients letting them know what you are doing.

All you can do is be honest with yourself have great integrity in your business brand. There are a lot of suckie people out there and it something we have to dodge and get around.

Thanks Derek for the great video. I keep telling him you have unpaid balance due he said ok and never pays. Then 2 or 3 months later he calls again asking me to fix his website. The cycle repeats it self and this has been going on for 2 years now. I ask very, very nicely for payment. In the letter, I tell them to please contact our office if they have questions or if we need to come up with a creative payment solution. That usually gets their attention.

Never happens to me.. When a friend gets an assignment from an iffy client he buys the url: NameOfClientCheats. So far has worked 3 out of 4 times. The 4th time his lawyer said not to mess around. I am not a lawyer. Cool solution maybe. Then the remaining money at the end of the day that I was hired for. The best way to get paid is get your money upfront. They did pay me on the dates we planned. Derek, I had a client—a prosperous businessperson from a wealthy area in California—a bit back for whom I wrote the copy for an entire website, 15 pages total.

We discussed it on the phone, and I agreed to knock down the price for the completed project. My mistake was in not getting a signed contract, either on paper or by email, but since he had agreed, I worked on the project in good faith. After meeting set milestones, I had received two-thirds of the fee, along with lots of praise for the work.

But when I sent the final invoice, no response. I then sent him a number of emails over the next few months—all mild in nature, just inquiring why no response. No reply whatsoever. A certified letter from me was refused. I emailed him several more times and then told him to please respond, or I would report him to the Ripoff Report, Preditors and Editors and similar sites.

No response, so I did report him. At that point, I probably should have let it go. I continue to send him a monthly invoice, that is, if anything, friendlier than ever.

One way I make money as a music producer is selling beats. My aim is to get select paying artists I can work with, instead of finding artist just to lease my beats to, so my prices are higher. She still wanted lower, and basically at the cost of leasing prices. She lost me as a producer right after she put down myself and other producers for our price and reasoning for it.

This method has worked with other artists that bought a few beats at a lower price instead of one, and still buy from me today. Also great video. Keep up the good work Derek. Every once in awhile someone would call after an event and complain about the bar bill or some other fee.

Also, I learned a lot in these conversations about what people really read and what I needed to make sure I highlighted for them. Any customer interaction—even the tough ones—is an opportunity to improve your business.

Unless, the customer is crazy. I always approach it as if the client made a mistake. That way the client has no need to get defensive. This has worked for me on a number of occasions. Only one client delayed the final payment an exceptionally large corporation that had consumed my operation for more than 8 months. Needless to say, I never did business with them again, BUT their competitors kept me busy for the next four years.

Your post has made me wonder whether that payment process should be automated so that each client is debited each month automatically so that I avoid these sorts of problems occurring. In some cases, I offer them an additional 15 minute conversation for free where I help them with the issues that they had difficulty with or I simply chalk it up to a business expense and that you cannot make everyone happy. I have learned that often it is not worth arguing with the client and will often just refund them the money or offer them their money back.

Further, I think that some clients just purchase informational productions on impulse and then the reality that they cannot afford it dawns upon them. There are lessons learned slowly. I give discounts to folks who find me on social media and also to authors who are in writing groups. The remainder owed is too small to take him to small claims court over.

Lesson: if someone tells you up front he is struggling, take the hint. Let him get the money together before you start the work. I have found that to be true too. I was doing these tasks for the client because their original supplier repeatedly let the contact down with low quality work and failure to answer emails. Then the client wanted a big piece of work complete, and 60 hours later the work was done, completed way above specification and it blew their minds.

I put this clause in to give my contact peace of mind. As a holistic nutritionist I usually offer week programs that can be paid in full or monthly payments.

I always get first instalment before starting any work for them and they sign a contract with dates that subsequent payments are due. The contract helps, as I have also done daycare for many years not using a contract and always got taken advantage of. I also like bartering for people that are short on cash and really need help to get better.

Most people that are genuine will do this and almost everyone has a skill that can help you in personal or professional life. I agree! Bartering is a great way to go. Highly recommend! I guess the way I handle it is this — Infusionsoft has a emails that they send out if a payment fails. It gives them the chance to change their payment information. I only get notified by infusionsoft if the payment has failed 3x. I make it about fixing something, rather then them not paying on purpose…which it turns out is the case most of the time.

However, there are a handful of people — literally 3 past customers who just refuse to respond to me or anything. In my mind, I can keep emailing them indefinitely, but is that a waste of my time?

Good question. In my business, vacation rentals both the host and the guest get to leave reviews for each other at the end of their stay. They know that if they want to keep using the website for booking rooms, they have to keep their record clean.

However, that only works for that individual service. Closest thing right now is Yelp. I had a client decide to not pay. No phone calls answered, noe email responses. After months of this I requested the my follower copy and paste a plea email and send it to him.

Please pay so we can just end his relationship and move on. PS- If you decide to ignore all of us we will use social media to inform future clients of how you do business.

Derek is so right about not getting angry. You can even say the same for feeling resentful. Finally, I emailed the client a few months ago explaining that I was disappointed in how our business relationship ended up. I also pointed out that by now they could use some work on their website to demonstrate that I still cared about being a resource to them. They wrote back and with a few reminders paid. Now I have them back as a client… as long as they pay me the bulk upfront. I like what Derek said about having clear terms up front and making sure you stick to them.

If you act wishy-washy and change the rules, people will take advantage. I do ask for prepayment on monthly services since the work would come before the payment. Hope that helps…. Fully agree on your points made. I have gone through all those stages. Since all is prepaid I have no hassle anymore and can focus on the content to be delivered.

Life circumstances changed, due to an unexpected surgery. I contacted the business owner and asked if the payment I had made could be applied to a less expensive package. I did not ask for my money back.

I was completely turned off. No thanks. Keep in mind that zero service has been provided. To me, her integrity is in question. Am I missing something? As a small business owner of a holistic life coaching and counseling service, who coaches other small businesses, and I would offer this perspective. This is a tacit contract. As you defaulted on your agreement, the business owner may not owe you anything at all, depending on the terms of your agreement. Thankfully he had a partner that I was able to talk some sense into.

It was very odd since we had a good relationship in the past, but I figured they decided to dump me and show their true colors. Content saying what a great and prompt paying client they have always been and have my follow ups been getting lost in their spam? I ended up getting a response from everyone on their team with major apologies and a check in my mailbox 3 days later. Been on you list for a few weeks!!! I love the straight talk you offer!

Annette, I love the way you are thinking. One thing tho is the psychology behind the pricing. Too low and you will get a higher percentage of returns. Not sure why, just a proven fact. And if you set up a sales funnel with upsells and downsells, you can offer both.

Example: Main sales page with the full price offer. If people click away, set up a downsell page with payment plan choices. If people click away from that page, offer a discount. If people click away from that offer a modified version of your training course with just the basics. On the other end of the spectrum, if they do buy on the first page, make sure to offer them an upsell while they still have their credit card in their hot little hands, perhaps a software program that automates something or additional coaching from you personally.

You get the idea. Honestly, people think they should get a refund no matter what because maybe they want it for free. I cannot tell you how to run your online business, but giving refunds depends on you and your brand. Remember you have to build people first and the people build your business. That means get the right people in your firm or clients. Also you have to think about your cost your next ROI etc. In my business there is only certain times I give refund and time I give no refund, but value.

I had a client who ordered additional work to her website. The job was to keep the integrity and brand look of her HTML site and add another 5 dozen individual products to her existing 6 ecommerce items. She had a deadline and asked her husband to help her get the photos and product descriptions together for me.

I proceeded to manually add each item separately via Paypal — very tedious. She explained that she would be discussing payment of my invoice with her husband first. I was shocked and did not know how to respond. I just nodded and left, basically. Later, I emailed her that if it was not paid for, the website would come down. I gave her a deadline. She was upset, as I had never threatened anything like that before. She paid what she agreed to but shortly thereafter I notified her that she would need to find another webmaster.

SHE had the need, not you. How bad does she need those extra products uploaded? Seriously — it works! Not getting paid is less of a problem IF if we really have earned the trust and respect and made it clear that we are real experts running real businesses with real policies and real results using our REAL skills to solve their problems.

The many hours it would take for me to learn what it takes to re-vamp that mess is time I need to work with building other important parts of my growing business. I have built over a dozen websites over the past many years, but wp has me stumped. I know that the person who will do the fixes could do it in their sleep.

THAT is precisely why I am hiring this person! My bigger problem is that people are unwilling to pay for my services. The comments? Very frustrating. He was wonderful. Totally professional, totally helpful.

No arguments. And this has paid off for me, the customer too, because whenever I have a query or a problem, he always goes the extra mile to help. I think sometimes customers would do well to realise this!

I sued their asses. Sometimes just a letter to their lawyer will do the trick. For a small business it is just not possible to manage cash flow and absorb the costs of defaulted payments. True sociopaths have no conscience, no empathy and no respect for the rules of society—but do tend to have extraordinary charm. It was under such a circumstance that I began a manufacturing job for a client who would never pay.

Had I done my homework better, I would have learned—as I subsequently did—that this individual was a professional fraudster who left a trail of victims far and wide across the country. As the amount I lost was well into the tens of thousands of dollars, I then took it upon myself to create a website under his name with a detailed list of the fraudulent and morally offensive deeds he had done to various victims. Reports from new victims were received and tabs kept on his latest whereabouts, family contacts, usual schemes, aliases and photographs.

It was with great relish some years later when I received an email through this site from a sergeant on the Sacramento police force, who was investigating this nefarious individual for serious crimes that went way beyond petty fraud. Good job! Fraud is one of the toughest crimes to get a conviction on. Thank you! I am so inspired! I got conned in and it was horrible! My website was temporarily held hostage. I would love to think I could facilitate this kind of justice to keep the d-bag from doing it again.

Good work! I just stood there patiently while everybody was getting their photos done, and then after about twenty minutes later mentioned to the bride that I was still waiting for the payment. She said something to her new MIL, and the woman finally huffed off and got her purse.

Normally I take half upfront and deliver final product on final payment. They get billed mid June for the July. When it gets really bad… I let them know that I have contacted a collection agency and they have reviewed my situation and know that I have a case. No one wants to have collections people bothering them.

Its all about making paying you the easier option. Also, I usually append with, if you are having financial issues, let me know and we can work out a payment plan. The client is from Australia Victoria, gee long. Can you please help me to get payment? She is not responding. Please help. We scheduled a shoot together and I sent her a contract to read and verify our plans, agreements and payment. She told me that she would bash my name all over social media and warn people about me stealing money from customers!!

And I gotta be honest — it did scare me. I never had that happen to me before from a potential customer and once you have a bad rap, it can make or break you. But once I realized the reason for her reaction she was pissed because she knew that she had to actually commit to my services and pay up I let it go. Thanks for the post Derek! I like it!