Five tips for independent contractors could be useful if I'm ever an independent contractor. (Similarly while I'm cleaning out my bookmarks--and don't forget inluminent is relatively NSFW--How to get a job and How to get a résumé read.) In my work for the Bar, I kind of transgressed against #4 ("Never discount your rates for a new client in the hopes of getting future business down the road at full rate"
), but that was more from inexperience ($30 sounds like a lot of money for an hour!) than discounting to get later work.