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The Prodigal Client


This evening I did a wonderful assignment. It’s not that the subject matter, per se, was wonderful. The client too, wasn’t some “oh, my God, I’d give my eye-teeth to work with that group of creatives” either. It was – the prodigal client. In case you’re not familiar with the parable, I shall paraphrase it here – In the “Gospel” of Best Business Practices, tell tale of a story of two clients – the one demands more and more services, and is critical when costs rise, and so, they go off to some other photographer, to ply their demands at a pittance. So goes that for a few years…
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Originally published on Photo Business News & Forum on June 27, 2007. Comments are closed; this post is part of the archive.