Five Freelance Workflow Mistakes That Create Unpaid Work

Five freelance workflow mistakes—no brief, unclear reviewer, unlimited revisions, undocumented handoff and no closeout—and a small repair for each.
Project setup collects the decisions made before work starts: the brief, the approver, the scope and the first delivery date.
Project setup collects the decisions made before work starts: the brief, the approver, the scope and the first delivery date.

Five freelance workflow mistakes—no brief, unclear reviewer, unlimited revisions, undocumented handoff and no closeout—and a small repair for each.

Write a project brief with an outcome, audience, constraints, success criteria and a named reviewer so the first draft starts from a shared definition.