Working with site designers

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BlueYonder

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I have somebody working on a site for me, and gave her two extensions because she needed more time. She said she needs an extension again, and I want to give her the time she needs to do it right, but I also don't want to be a chump.

Can anybody give advice on getting them to completion? I know she's working on several projects at once, but worried she's doing other people's work instead of mine. My designer was hired through Rent A Coder.

I wanted to go live at the end of the month, but this looks like a pipe dream. Aaaaagggghhhh!!!
 


Have you paid already? I'd suggest just telling her that, say you already gave two extensions and you need the site up by the end of the first week of September. Tell her if she is too busy to finish then just give you what she has finished and you will pay her a percentage (if she has done half of it don't pay her half the money, more like 30%) of the agreed price and hire someone else to finish it. Just don't get all angry and mean and try and demand it to be finished, that won't work just stay reasonable and fair. I usually treat my designers like customers to a certain degree (they are always right, being nice, blah blah) even though I am paying them. I find that works a lot better most of the time. Good luck.
 
No, the deal at RAC is that you don't pay if they don't finish. They are given clear deadlines, and their status goes negative if the the goods aren't uploaded on time. Then the buyer has to approve the work before the worker gets paid.

I am being nice. I even told her I want her to have sufficient time to do a good job and meant that. They probably take on more work than they can handle because they work cheaply, and everybody who hires them gets put off.

If I'm nasty to her she can just quit and put the project into default. She would get a bad score, though, which would affect her ability to get work in the future.
 
In this situation, I've already marked the service provider as "do not use again". I've given extensions to people I have established relationships with, but not with people who are doing their first project for me. I mean, I pay 100% promptly, it's not unreasonable to ask that the work be done on the schedule THEY SET!

Is she aware that you have to go live at the end of the month? Make her aware. Sometimes people who are lazy or have too much to do, need a kick in the ass to re-prioritize themselves.

After a while, nice means your blood boils, and she start thinking you will continue to bend over as she works on other people's urgent projects.
 
I think what I will do is reiterate that I need to go live by Sept. 1, tell her I'm giving her a 3-day extension, and that's the end of the extensions she'll get from me. If she doesn't deliver, she defaults on the work she's done so far and gets a bad grade. I hope this will give her some focus.

I have come to hate RAC, as most of the people I have worked with were iffy. The reason I'm working with her is because I had money in my account there that I wanted to use up, but will probably hire through this site in the future. The people here seem far more professional and businesslike.
 
I did something a bit counterintuitive just now, and offered her a $25 bonus to put aside everybody else's work and give me a fabulous site before the extension deadline. This is extra protection so that she doesn't default.

Hopefully, a little bribe will get us to the end of this project, and after that, I am so outta there. I don't want to use RAC again.
 
What I do with outsources that start doing this is to give them a date two days away and tell them that this is a hard deadline and any delay after that will result in a reduction in the amount paid to them by $10/$20 a day.

Usually this is from scriplance programmers that bid 7 days and are on day 15 and I see them still bidding and taking on work...
 
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