Clients From Hell

Archive for September 2006

We love your work. But we can’t afford you.

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: September 27, 2006

When will I get that one client who will say “We love your work and because we want to work with you we’ll even take off our underwear and dance naked to get you to design for us.“?
Never I guess.
Never ever.
They see the portfolio, they see the client testimonials, they even get a fantastic recommendation [...]

Why aren’t we getting any hits?

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: September 15, 2006

There’s this client, they needed a holding-page on their website before the whole website was launched because their budget for the full website would be generated only after the products we packaged and started selling.
The holding page is basically an image with links to the client’s official e-mail id and their phone number and a [...]

I want the moon, I’m giving you dust

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: September 15, 2006

Repeatedly, this particular client, keeps giving me examples of other websites that he likes and wants to follow similar styling. The trouble is that all these websites are designed in Flash. And he has made it very clear that he cannot afford to pay for Flash designing.
Is this client that dumb?


Clients From Hell : Yeah

Bitching about clients. The bad ones. And boy are there many. The good ones are meant for the real, company-linked design blog. The bad ones go down in history here - I wish I could tell them to their face where they're screwing up but then I'll just be a poor designer instead of the decently rich one I am now. Compromises.

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