Paying Subcontractors
Talk about the fee
Get a payment plan documented and signed!
You have no idea how many Australians cannot discuss “price”. Rediculous isn’t it! If you are a talented, licensed, professional and you provide a service for someone, then you should have no fear about asking for the money! If you completed substantial amounts of work on a continual basis, then ask for payment on a continual basis!
As an interior designer and manager of a landscape business and demolition company, I have been on both sides of the question of payment
As a consultant, I expect to be paid when I leave the clients premises. And on only one occassion did this not happen in 17 years. How do I get paid? I simply ask for it. I explain to me clients from the first phone call what my terms are and allow them to understand my expectations of the terms of payment. In a way I am educating them. Because they just don’t know what is expected. Why should they? How many times do they have a professional consultant come to their home?