Understanding your contract

- So now that you've had a conversation about pricing, you've built an estimate for your client and the project is greenlit, it may be instinctful just to start working on the project right now. And we've been guilty of that several times early in our career, where we just get excited and we want to start the project. But there's a couple more steps that are necessary to make sure that you're protected, and those two subjects are getting your deposit and making sure you have an appropriate contract with your client. - And a contract is going to help both you and the client because it's really going to put everything in writing that you've discussed and make sure it's really clear what you're bringing to the table as well as what your client's responsibilities are. So this is an example of the contract that we use for most projects. And like a lot of things we've discussed, we like to keep things as simple as possible. And sometimes we get contracts from our clients that are dozens of…