{"id":10694,"date":"2015-05-14T05:33:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T09:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=10694"},"modified":"2015-05-14T02:09:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T06:09:53","slug":"if-you-dont-ask-you-might-never-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/personal\/if-you-dont-ask-you-might-never-know.html","title":{"rendered":"If You Don&#8217;t Ask, You Might Never Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, I am so sorry for my silence. I have been deliriously busy. I wake up in the morning and before I know it, it&#8217;s night. Right now, I&#8217;m typing this post at the expense of my sleep, and I&#8217;m gonna pay for it because I have an early meeting. Hopefully I don&#8217;t fall asleep in the middle. Meanwhile, I have been so busy that I have been carrying the same bag for weeks. The problem with this is that it&#8217;s one of those really big bags, and you know when you have a big bag, it may be stylish, but it encourages carrying rubbish. My bag is so heavy that when I go out with Igwe, I have him carry it. As I speak right now, there are all kinds of things in there, including two huge pairs of scissors. Don&#8217;t ask. Two days ago, I even had an underwear in there. Don&#8217;t worry, it was clean.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so I have this company that sends me offers for sponsored posts every now and then. I have been working with them for over a year now, and they have been pretty consistent. Apart from a few posts that were significantly higher [in compensation], the rest have been paying the same amount.<\/p>\n<p>Every time they send me an offer, I would begrudgingly accept it and wonder why on earth they cannot just pay more money, but I never bothered to ask. Las year, I did a whole bunch of posts for them, mostly for this same amount that has been vexing me. Technically, it&#8217;s not a bad amount, but haba, babe has been blogging for a while. Should she not receive a higher amount?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Just-Try.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10696\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Just-Try.jpg\" alt=\"Just-Try\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Just-Try.jpg 750w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Just-Try-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Just-Try-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So last week, they sent me yet another campaign offer. This time, I vexed! I sent an email to the campaign manager asking her if the client was willing to negotiate because I just couldn&#8217;t do it at that price. She responded and asked how much I wanted. I decided to try my luck by doubling the price. I was using Naija sense because I was sure that there would be some negotiation. To my pleasant surprise, there was no negotiation. I was told that the new price was fine &#8212; just like that. Oh, but here&#8217;s the kicker: apparently, they have been offering me that price because that was what I listed as my minimum pay when I joined them. Aaaaahhhhh!<\/p>\n<p>Without knowing it, I have been putting sand in my own garri. I thought about going back and counting all the posts I did for them last year, just to calculate how much I potentially lost, but my heart wouldn&#8217;t have been able to take it. It was just too much to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>This might have been a little event, but it meant a lot to me. I was reminded once again that no matter how daunting something looks, I should go ahead and try. I&#8217;m currently trying to expand Verastic again &#8211; kind of &#8211; and what I&#8217;m asking for and looking for is big, and so far, I have gotten multiple rejections, but I&#8217;m hopeful that someone will say yes. Someone will definitely have to say yes. I don&#8217;t know who the person will be or when the person will say yes, but someone will have to say yes. Until then, I&#8217;ll keep looking. The worst that can happen is that the person will say no, and that&#8217;s okay. I&#8217;ll just have to keep looking. Wish me luck, Sweet Potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>All that being said, may the memory and potential of the money I didn&#8217;t make rest in eternal peace. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, I am so sorry for my silence. I have been deliriously busy. I wake up in the morning and before I know it, it&#8217;s night. 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