Part of presenting yourself as a professional editor includes how you go about pursuing clients who owe you money. You should approach clients about payment without alientating them from doing future business with you. Rarely will you have a problem getting paid, though there may some clients who will take forever to do so. If [...]

Your invoice should reflect the following: Invoice number, billing date. Name, address, business or SS identification number Name of the project and producer (the one who hired you). Client’s purchase order or job number, if any. An itemized list of days that you worked, and the overtime hours if necessary. Production companies and ad agencies [...]

The production/post-production industry operates within a network of other companies and clients, so your contribution to the final product is merely a blip in the overall scheme of a greater effort. So I can assure you that your pleas to get paid in two weeks will fall on deaf ears. Expect that you will be [...]