Client of the Day
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Two ways:1. Don't start the project until you get all of the final, approved content. You don't schedule it, you don't plan around it, you don't sketch, you don't even think about it. Until you get the content, it's not a real project, it's just a client dreaming about something they might want one day. This method works.
2. Don't let the client provide the content. You provide it. Hire a copywriter, a photographer, whoever you need to and bill the client for it. Do this when you quote the project out.
I've had this situation before, and I'm dealing with this right now. I have a project from about a year ago, a small website. Every other month the client calls me up and asks how the site is coming, and what I need to finish it off. Every time I tell him I just need all the content for all the pages I have laid out with dummy text. Then he goes away for six weeks until he asks the same question. This site is never going to launch because I didn't ask for content up-front.
- Thanks for the info, some really good advice, I'm only working for small businesses so number one is probably my only option.sneakybadger
- The problem with 1 is that some don't care and still send the content late.Glitterati_Duane
- Then you have a shit load of work to do with less time to do it.Glitterati_Duane
- Unless you have a contract that covers you for such a thing you'll screw yourself.Glitterati_Duane