Tag Archives: painful clients

Top 5 reasons to turn down a client

I’ve written before about how turning down clients is necessary to grow as a freelancer, but today I want to focus on signals that alert you that this job might be a good one to turn down. 1. The client is quote shopping. Government departments are great at this. They send you an email with [...]

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Dealing with painful micromanager clients

Every freelancer has had them – the client that wants things exactly different. Sometimes they ruin the design and don’t make sense, sometimes it’s personal preference. What we need to do, is educate our clients from the beginning. Feedback has to be objective and customer focused. If you’re dealing with a committee, get one person [...]

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