Question
Someone has asked me to help her set up a Wordpress site and provide her help with blogging, social media, youtube marketing for her clinic.
Hours of listening to various podcasters like Pay Flynn and doing it for myself, have made me a little more competent in this area than the average joe. But, I'm no where near a blogging or super youtube star. I've never been able to sustain myself doing it for a living.
So, I really have no idea what to charge. Should I even charge? What do you guys think?
Answer
You should pass on the job completely and have your friend contact someone who is good at doing these things.
The last thing you want is to be paid for a job you
1) Cant complete properly, take forever to do or
2) You come to dread working on as you are not competent.
Yes, you can improve your skills in these areas, but not on someone else's dime who is paying for skills that you don't have!
Work on your own websites/socmed and get good at it, then maybe -- if this is something you want to do -- you can market your services. Having no past clients is better than having unsatisfied past clients who will spread word about your bad work.
