The Freelance Designer's Contract & Rate Mastery Kit: How to Price, Protect, and Profit from Your Creative Work Without Chasing Clients or Eating Scope Creep - Softcover

Mitchell, Dana

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798190438062

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

You're a talented designer. Your portfolio is solid. But you're stuck charging $45/hour, watching projects balloon to three times the original scope, and sending follow-up emails to clients who "forgot" to pay.

The problem isn't your design skill. It's your business system.

In this book, I give you the exact framework I used to go from exhausted hourly freelancer to a designer who charges $8,000 per project, never works without a contract, and hasn't chased a late payment in three years.

You'll learn:

• The rate formula that accounts for taxes, healthcare, downtime, and profit — not just your cost of living
• Four pricing models and why hourly is the worst one for your actual income
• The exact contract clauses that prevent scope creep, protect your IP, and guarantee payment
• Scripts for saying "that's outside scope" without sounding like a jerk
• A payment chase system: polite on Day 15, professional on Day 30, nuclear on Day 60
• How to spot client red flags before they cost you money
• The upsell playbook that makes existing clients 5× more valuable than new ones
• Productized services: escape the hourly trap by packaging your skills into fixed-price offerings

This isn't motivational fluff. It's templates, scripts, formulas, and the hard-won lessons of someone who made every freelance money mistake so you don't have to.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798190438062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24