Thoughts on Illustration

Bad Clients: How to Turn Them Before They Burn You

Episode Summary

Learn How to Make Good Work AND Please Your Clients — Take The Six Stages of Illustration: https://skl.sh/4cCTxEH — Use this link to get 30 days of free membership on Skillshare. What makes otherwise good people such bad clients? How do you deal with them — and how can you avoid them in the first place? In this episode, I explain why there almost never truly bad clients. In my 10+ year career, I've had very few bad clients. Most of them were in the beginning, when I didn't have enough experience to spot them before it's too late. By listening to this episode, you'll learn what I wish I knew when I was starting out — and this will help you make sure every client is a good client! That means they'll trust you to do what you do best (the art!) and they'll give you everything you need to do your job.

Episode Notes

Learn How to Make Good Work AND Please Your Clients — Take The Six Stages of Illustration: https://skl.sh/4cCTxEH — Use this link to get 30 days of free membership on Skillshare.

What makes otherwise good people such bad clients? How do you deal with them — and how can you avoid them in the first place? In this episode, I explain why there almost never truly bad clients. In my 10+ year career, I've had very few bad clients. Most of them were in the beginning, when I didn't have enough experience to spot them before it's too late. By listening to this episode, you'll learn what I wish I knew when I was starting out — and this will help you make sure every client is a good client! That means they'll trust you to do what you do best (the art!) and they'll give you everything you need to do your job.

 

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IN THIS EPISODE

0:00:00 - Intro and Opener: No Bad Clients, only Bad Behaviours

0:05:16 - How to Support

0:07:50 - Main Content

0:08:25 - Ordering a Coffee at Starbucks for the First Time

0:10:20 -  Describing What Haircut You Want to Your Barber

 0:15:00 - Problems arise from Misaligned Expectations and Inability to Communicate

0:15:30 - The Four Types of Clients to Avoid

0:17:00 - 01 The Unprepared Client

0:25:36 - 02 The Inexperienced Client

0:34:00 - 03 The Uninformed Client

0:40:45 - 04 The Over-asking Client

0:55:07 - Summary