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Poll: What do you value the most when working with a regular client?
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Feb 6

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This poll was originally submitted by Khurram Shahzad. View the poll results »
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Other Feb 6

Client loyalty, meaning regular projects with a streamlined workflow paid on time at my rate.

Tiago Hoge
Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Maria Laura Curzi
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Khurram Shahzad
 
neilmac
neilmac
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Other Feb 6

Timely payments. I have two long-standing regular non-academic (and non-agency) clients. One pays me promptly at the end of each month. The other one, a smaller company, tends to pay me "when they can". For example, they still owe me over €1000 for work done in December. There is no point in me hassling them, I know from experience that they will pay me when it suits them, even though it might be not until the next time they want me to do some work for them.

Khurram Shahzad
 
Gregor Trebec
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Well... Feb 6

Communication, behaviour, timely payment...
I once had a client that, in our email communication, responded with just smileys.

Maria Laura Curzi
Khurram Shahzad
 
Peter Simon
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And also... Feb 6

I've voted fair rates because I feel that voting for clear communication wouldn't cover what I mean. Normal, fairly swift and helpful communication is also important but what I mean is that I hate to keep guessing about the nature of the subject. The field of expertise is often vital but some agencies don't let me know. Worse, sometimes the clients of the agencies don't clearly communicate it to them, either. In such cases letting me see at least a part of the original would do a lot of good.

Khurram Shahzad
 


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