[lbo-talk] any advice?

[joanna]

Email him and ask him if there is a problem with payment.
Make sure the email provides a summary of work done so far (including 
meetings, troubleshooting, etc.)
Ask him if he understands and agrees with your pay policies.
Whatever he writes you back, unless he directly disputes one of the 
charges, as in "meeting never happened" -- is your evidence that the 
work happened, that he agrees it happened, and that he didn't pay. Maybe 
useful in small claims.
But basically, try to find a process that he agrees with and that you 
can live with.

Without that process there can be no more work. You do not need to 
explain that you don't work for free. But you might tell him that you 
only work with paying customers.

Perhaps, once you get a good relationship going, you might consider some 
freebies, but right now you are trying to determine whether he is 
someone you can trust, and it doesn't look good.

In future, you might consider a mandatory nominal advance (explaining 
that you've gotten burned before). Like, you know 20% of estimated final 
total.

All the best,

Joanna

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