Marketing + Sales 9: Goals
We are talking about sales and marketing and how best to push these two together and ensure they play nice. We have talked about some of the practicalities of sharing…
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Post Projects Steps 5: Communication
With some clients, you want to run to the hills as fast as you can and never see them again, but with most its worth keeping in touch. Here’s a…
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Post Project Steps 2: Testimonials
There is an old saying that you are only as good as your last project and I think there’s some truth in that. It’s important that after a project has…
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When Projects Go Bad: Unpaid and Unhappy
Following on from a project going bad and a relationship deteriorating with a client, its quite natural that we now turn our attention to client’s who won’t pay. No Great…
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When Projects Go Bad: Annoying Your client
To bring to a close our series of blogs on what to do to try and save that faltering project I thought I’d cover some of the stupidest ways you…
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When Projects Go Bad 6: Walking Away
Sometimes you simply can’t save a project. So when and how should you consider walking away? What factors should you consider? Sunk Assets One of the major psychological factors in…
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When Projects Go Bad 3: Proactive Steps
We’ve been talking about projects going bad and how to go about rescuing them. So far we’ve covered negative and angry feedback and how to deal with it. The main…
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Good Client Relations 13: Cheap Skates
This is certainly one of the most common traits that I’ve seen freelancers get frustrated with. Clients who want the earth for pennies. So how best to deal with a…
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Good Client Relations 10: Scope Creepers
We are continuing our guide through those less desirable client attributes and how best to handle them. Today we’re talking about scope creep. Scope creep is where a client keeps…
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Good Client Relations 8: Emergencies
For the upcoming weeks I will be covering various bad habits of clients and how best to deal with them. Although 90% of clients are fine, when you do come…
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