Comments on: Your client is wrong. Now what?

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:24:55 +0000

Why do I bohetr calling up people when I can just read this!

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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:51:09 +0000

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By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:05:11 +0000

Great comments, Nick! I’m glad that your clients realize that you know best. It’s always a tad frustrating when it’s the other way around, and you wonder, “If you know what you want to do, and won’t listen to what I say, um, why did you hire me..?”

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:21:21 +0000

I’ve found that education from the very beginning is important. By teaching clients and potential clients how my business operates via newsletters and blog posts they understand that we are a white hat firm and there are certain strategies we won’t recommend. If they do have a suggestion that I don’t agree with, they usually understand that I know best and side with me once I state my case.

By: Clare Green

Clare Green — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:50:02 +0000

I seem to do nothing but burst the bubble of clients. New clients in particular feel a responsibility to educate themselves on SEO and while I appreciate and sympathise, it really can do a lot more harm than good.

I’ve done various websites where the Client has eventually overruled (often at the 11th hour) and it’s either walk away unpaid from all the work I have done or allow it to go ahead.

It’s such a shame and sometimes I feel almost like I’m trying to justify my own existence to a Client, when they have originally come to me for my help and experience.

Most of the time, Clients are happy to receive your advice and work with you to come up with an ultimate outcome they are delighted with, but just occasionally, it makes you feel like screaming!

By: Bas

Bas — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:22:35 +0000

I strongly believe that an online professional who doesn’t disagree with their clients is in fact not a professional at all

Educating clients and getting their strategies straightend out is, IMHO, one of the most important things in our field of work.

And if they just don’t want to listen? Predict the outcome of their vision, do as they tell you and slap em in the face when you turn out to be right