Show host and OAP, Gbemi Olateru Olagbegi takes to her Twitter page to dish out business advice to creatives about dealing with family members and friends.
In her tweet, the OAP advised creatives not o hesitate to turn down family and friends who won’t want to them for their work. She also recalled her experience with a family member who asked her to help her post a flyer on her IG page and refuse to remunerate her properly for using her platform to push her product.
Gbemi O tweeted;
Dear creatives, do not hesistate to say “NO” to family members / family friends who don’t want to pay for your work. When I was mc’ing weddings a few yrs ago – some aunties /uncles will say “Come & MC your cousins wedding” but wouldn’t want to pay. I’m not around Ma.
Makeup artistes/photographers/artistes suffer this too.
One said “Please help me post this flyer on your IG page.” I helped her the first time . The second time, she came again & said “Please help me post this on your page and send your Acct details – let me send you 20k for the weekend “ I didn’t reply. You’ve got jokes .
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