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40 Tips for brand-new freelance designers | Graphic Design Blender — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:35:57 +0000

[...] have money or pieces in your portfolio. Knowing this, you need to be armed with a solid knowledge of client relations to keep getting clients and maintain the ones you have worked so hard to [...]

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By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:21:30 +0000

Good article and good advices. Even though I’m not a graphics designer, I have experience of the software industry and it’s the same on many points.

By: Artas Bartas

Artas Bartas — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:14:29 +0000

Actually, Lithuanian clients ask for things “to be done yesterday” on a routine basis. I figure out it this trend has to do with absolute inability to plan things ahead on the clients side and desperate desire to please on the supply side.

In any case, a nice piece of advise. Enjoyed reading it.

By: Hyperventilation » Challenges for 2010, among others

Hyperventilation » Challenges for 2010, among others — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:39:34 +0000

[...] Be a little more patient with your most annoying clients [...]

By: Andy Towler

Andy Towler — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:15:25 +0000

Number 4 can sometimes be bad enough to make it worth walking away. I learned the hard way with one client who gave me 2 years of fairly lucrative business but every minute was a nightmare. In the end my sanity was more important to me than the money.

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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:13:54 +0000

[...] Be a little more patient with your most annoying clients [...]

By: Belinda

Belinda — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:29:52 +0000

I really love the ice cream shop analogy. I think its important to be able to explain things to clients in a straight forward jargon free way, which is exactly what the ice cream analogy (and the other analogies) allow you to do.

By: Jonathan Patterson

Jonathan Patterson — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:49:58 +0000

I had a client who needed a website re-designed and they did a Google search for their business and wanted me to fix all the references pointing to their site!

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:34:11 +0000

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