Design Industry tag

Watch any news pro­gram and you’ll hear sta­tis­tics about Amer­ica hav­ing fallen behind most other indus­tri­al­ized coun­tries in mat­ters of heath, edu­ca­tion, and tech­nol­ogy. But I can think of one area in which we excel—creative services.

Pitch to enough clients of a cer­tain size and even­tu­ally you’re going to be asked to sign a stan­dard­ized con­tract or NDA. Usu­ally it comes from a large client with a team of lawyers who burry you in page after page of terms which are so one-​​​​sided it’s becomes laughable.

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.