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I should quickly update on this.
I did phone my marketing contact and explained that the lack of payment was causing me some headaches, and said something along the lines of "I really need these to paid more promptly to continue working with you".
She was apologetic and promised to find out what was going on.
Later that day (or maybe the next day) I got an email from the MD. The gist of which was "In our industry 60 days is standard payment terms. We expect our suppliers to use the same terms, I trust this is acceptable."
My response was that those may be standard in their industry but 60 days is unacceptable an independent consultant such as myself and if they were unwilling to meet MY 30 day terms then perhaps they need to find a different supplier. In which case I would honour any work that'd already been initiated but once complete they would need to go elsewhere.
Following day they agreed to meet my terms

I should quickly update on this.
I did phone my marketing contact and explained that the lack of payment was causing me some headaches, and said something along the lines of "I really need these to paid more promptly to continue working with you".
She was apologetic and promised to find out what was going on.
Later that day (or maybe the next day) I got an email from the MD. The gist of which was "In our industry 60 days is standard payment terms. We expect our suppliers to use the same terms, I trust this is acceptable."
My response was that those may be standard in their industry but 60 days is unacceptable an independent consultant such as myself and if they were unwilling to meet MY 30 day terms then perhaps they need to find a different supplier. In which case I would honour any work that'd already been initiated but once complete they would need to go elsewhere.
Following day they agreed to meet my terms

No replies so I'll have a shot
 
I know a few people who have tried this and I had a sniff myself but abandoned the project.
 
The issue I had with it is that I find it tends to attract clients who only look at the price tag, rather than the quality. I enjoy having the time to provide a really good quality website - with bespoke design, future-proofed coding, etc.
 
You could probably get it to pay if you put enough effort into the marketing, but I suspect you'll need to content yourself with the idea of cranking out cookie-cutter templated websites and may not get a great deal of professional satisfaction.