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No dear, my reply meant something to the effect of it doesn't really matter if she is a 50 year old hairy male, a single female with no kids, or who she claims to be. She has a right to portray herself as anything she wants to. No one should really care, but the fact that she is not communicating SHOULD matter. Oh and before you accuse someone as a "gossipy" female...check previous posts...I don't go in threads saying "oooh look what I heard" because if I was like that, trust me I could have given you and this board a whole lot of shit I had heard that was backed up with Tootie's own posts on several boards.

what.. drama.. on GFY?!?!?!
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What type of excuses exactly? For not getting work done as promised or not being able to do the work?

There is an important lesson here for any small service or content provider. If you're good at what you do then you will get behind but cutting yourself off from the world while you catch up is like giving yourself the kiss of death.

In a business like this where so much work comes in from personal recommendations it is pure insanity not to be available to at least talk to potential clients. If they can't talk to you when they need work done then they won't come back when you are ready to talk to them.

The other important thing to do is to even out your cash flow and you can't do that if you cut yourself off from the world while you get caught up with a backlog. If you do then you will find yourself in the same situation that Tootie mentions here - she says she is working her nuts off but she now has no income.

If you can't even out your cash flow it doesn't matter how much work you get, you won't survive or you will be constantly coming back to boards like this one begging for work because you can't feed the kids.