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Another good read on the cur­rent deval­u­a­tion of cre­ative services—this time from the per­spec­tive of a Copy­writer. If you’re Web or Graphic Designer who has had the priv­i­lege of work­ing with a good copy­writer than you know they are more than a glo­ri­fied spell check, and how much eas­ier they can make your job. I’ve about had my fill of the cheap copy debate. In truth, there isn’t one. If you’ve got a com­plaint about copy­writ­ers charg­ing too much, you’ve…

Is the bad client a fact of busi­ness or a crutch when things go awry? If you have direct con­tact with clients at some point your going to get your­self into a work­ing rela­tion­ship, which doesn’t. It’s one of those unavoid­able things in life—like death and taxes. Few sub­jects for free­lancers gen­er­ate more dis­cus­sions than how to work with less-​​​​than-​​​​ideal clients. It’s sim­ply a fact of doing busi­ness not every rela­tion­ship is going to gel.

Now we have a myr­iad of other portable inter­net capa­ble devices and sud­denly small is the place to be. Again.

Via AdPulp, an arti­cle which touches on the points men­tioned in my ear­lier arti­cle Bum Clients:Tales Of A Cre­ative Pros­ti­tute. The ter­mi­nated are becom­ing the ter­mi­na­tors. They’re mad as hell and they’re not going to take this any­more. So they’re going postal with posts, broad­cast­ing the dys­func­tional, irre­spon­si­ble and allegedly crim­i­nal trans­gres­sions of for­mer bosses. Why, there’s more dirty laun­dry than a Tide with Bleach con­ven­tion. The gloves are off and after years of being smacked around…

Hav­ing worked through­out the states I can say with a degree of cer­tainty, bum clients here are the rule not the excep­tion. One only needs to peruse the Art and Media jobs sec­tion on any bay area/​central Florida sec­tion of Craigslist.org and you will quickly know what I am refer­ring to.