6 Warning Signs of a Potentially Bad Client

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While I appreciate the sentiment of having a good work ethic, (and I like to think that I do), there are certain clients out there that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. The two biggest reasons I have for turning down a client are:

1. I will never make this client happy
2. I will have a hard time getting this client to pay me

How do I know this? Well truth be told, I don't really KNOW. One can never KNOW that for sure, but there are many small behaviors that I have observed over the years that have come to be known by me as "tells." When I first started observing them, I took note, but I brushed them off because I really wanted the work. Then almost without fail, the clients that I picked out as difficult to deal with quickly became impossible.
Here are some of those tells:   more...