Clients
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- ********
Why do you always refer to clients as clients?
to put it differently:
acting like they are all the same.
I notice most of us here have the same 'middle of the road commercial client that needs flash'.
I myself see a LOT of differences in the set of clients I serve, and I mean a LOT.
And with a lot (if not most) i even build up a good personal relationship.
Please elaborate on your 'clients'.
- mrdobolina0
photographers, a bmx retail shop, bands, an insurance consultancy, mortgage lenders, and then I work full time at 2 newspapers as well.
- angelus350
I struggle with clients being in a small town with mostly small busines clients available. 95% of the designers are FrontPage and Eye Candy filter masters and saturate every possible inch the market with their $300 waste of time web sites. None of them know the value of aesthetics and when you try to explain it, they become confused and don't understand why design is just not a "out of the box" product that can be purchased and used immediatly. When you do find a potential customer, you're bidding against people using guistuff.com themes and trying to sell their site design for a couple hundred dollars just to pay for their Internet porn instead of actually developing a solid expressed web application. Then there's always the clients that think once you design the site, they'll be all set editing with their Microsoft FrontPage they got with thier MS Office package on their shiny new Dell or Gateway.
This is my market. Care to join me?
- instantok0
angelus35::
im right there with you...
hard to to go postal sometimes.
- angelus350
Not to mention that clients look at you in confusion when you say that it's probably going to take longer than a week to do it.
- mrdobolina0
you guys gotta get out of those towns, I dont have huge clients, but they dont mess with guys like you were talking about.
- k0na_an0k0
hookers, strippers, pimps, whores, the guy working the back room at the local porn shop, drunks, hippies, hooters waitresses, topless dancers, my grandmother, drag queens and such.
- mrdobolina0
Kona, the jizz mopper!
- angelus350
The average wage for a tech job in this area is less than $30K. It's not so simple to pack up and move to a new town not knowing anyone or having anything stable for when you arrive. At least I haven't found out how to do it. I'll keep working my thing though and hopefully something good will come my way some day.
- krts0
My "clients" are people who pay me to do work for them.
I do work for a bike company, a water company, a jerk, the illustrator of the Harry Potter books, a town, a cafe, a motorcycle custom shop, target, mervyns, marshall fields, blah, blah.....
- ********0
hmm.... mostly commercial.
i got a fine share of non-profit clients... which is good.
- sparker0
i serve no clients. i'm an in-house engineer/programmer/administrato...
makes my life hella lot easier.
- Tyrone0
Hey 4cY...why is it good to have non-profit clients? What's the benefit?
- ********0
not sure.
but my biggest benefit is that i can focus on standards and good design instead of putting up an interactive 99 raveflyer.
na meen?
;)
- Tyrone0
i hear ya
- auricom0
damn client confidentiality clause gets me everytime. one of the main reasons my portfolio is limited. if i could have used some of my work, i would probably have a better job.
on a different note, for the small town peeps, i made the move and yes it has sucked, but you grow as a person and it shows in your work. i didn't have anything waiting for me, just a girlfriend that is now an ex. so now i'm kickin it on my own and i don't know anyone here, but i'm working my butt off to change my current situation and it feels good. i'm not making big money, hell i'm barely getting by, but i still see it as a positive step. if there isn't anything keeping you in that small town, go explore, there's too much inspiration out there to pass up.
and no my names not Jack Handy.
- mrdobolina0
Auricom, you're good enough, strong enough and doggone it, people like you.
- krts0
Word auricom!
- pr20
what's a "Client"?
- Tyrone0
it could be a web browser, email app or a computer connected to a server amongst other things.
- krts0
Someone who pays you to do work. Employer sound better?