Contracts With Production Clients

Contracts are extremely important when doing business.

For podcast production, here are some things you may want to include in your contracts with clients:

• Length of the contract. How many episodes over what length of time.
• Specifically what you will be doing for them. Include everything: Audio cleanup, mixing, mastering, tagging, uploading to media host,
• Specifically what you will NOT be doing for them
• Specifically what items/info you need from them as well as how far in advance you need it.
• Requirements with regards to you receiving raw tracks at least X number of days before that episode is to be published. You don’t want clients sending you files and saying, “We need to publish this tomorrow morning!”
• Specific pricing for additional work, episodes that go long, extra audio to be added at the last minute, etc.
• Payment terms. I usually require 2 payments – 50% up front, and the remaining 50% when we are half way through the contract.

Of course, each client is unique so you may need to include additional elements in the contract as well.

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