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EXPERT TIPS FOR DIY DESIGNERS 5 Red Flag Signs Your Potential Client is Crazy (learn…)


We’ve all heard those client horror stories. The constantly calling client, the forever changing their mind client and the I have no money to pay you client. In their defense, I think everyone gets to be a horrid client to someone once in their life. But there are just a few things you can guarantee even before the project agreement is signed that this client is going to be a WACK job. 

Now don’t get me wrong, I try my best to not judge a book by it’s cover but some things you can’t get out of your head months later half way thru the project when you say to yourself “DAM I should’a Run“. 

#5 The potential client calls you not once but twice before or after your business hours. Now if you don’t have your hours of operation on your voicemail, email, website or facebook page then you only have yourself to blame. But if you do, I can guarantee the one that called you too early is a micro manager and the one that called you too late does not have much business ethic. 

#4 They are constantly rescheduling your FIRST meeting.  And when I say constant I mean more then twice. They either too busy fooling themselves in adding another project to their “jack of all trades master of none” life or they just can’t get it together. Either way, you will end up paying the bill with this one. 

#3 They start the conversation with “it’s the end of the world, this was due yesterday and karma will come back to you 3-fold if you drop everything and do this one simple thing”. Chances are they most likely got themselves in this predicament and you don’t want to end up like Dorthy getting lost in their self-made tornado. 

#2 They hand you someone else’s proposal and challenges you to do better. This person has no respect for anyones time, thinks all services are made equal and believes they were put on this earth to be served … by everyone. 

#1 All time, red alert warning is if the first thing they say about their project is: “My last designer, photographer, programmer, consultant, enter-service-name-person-here was horrible!” If you were on a date with this person, and this is how they described their last relationship, you too would think to yourself “it takes two to tango.”

All in all always keep an open mind and don’t take anything personal BUT do follow your gut. No project or amount of money is worth your own sanity.

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