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		<title>By: Joshua</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Clients with marketing degrees making their own site and wanting you to turn a crappy flash page into a social networking site (with a projected income of $42 million after 2 years)...  It&#039;s impossible...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clients with marketing degrees making their own site and wanting you to turn a crappy flash page into a social networking site (with a projected income of $42 million after 2 years)&#8230;  It&#8217;s impossible&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Communication Breakdown &#38; Other Fun Stuff&#8230; &#171; Design Drama</title>
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		<dc:creator>Communication Breakdown &#38; Other Fun Stuff&#8230; &#171; Design Drama</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Communication Breakdown &amp; Other Fun&#160;Stuff&#8230; December 17, 2008 Filed under: But I&#039;m the designer!, artistic angst, artists, clients from hell, jobs, organization, things I can do without &#8212; missbethd @ 6:38 pm  Tags: CD package design, frustration  I&#8217;ve had a bad project experience that stems from a lack of communication with a client. And I was going to write a post about this sort of thing, but it turns out, someone else already has [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Communication Breakdown &amp; Other Fun&nbsp;Stuff&#8230; December 17, 2008 Filed under: But I&#8217;m the designer!, artistic angst, artists, clients from hell, jobs, organization, things I can do without &#8212; missbethd @ 6:38 pm  Tags: CD package design, frustration  I&#8217;ve had a bad project experience that stems from a lack of communication with a client. And I was going to write a post about this sort of thing, but it turns out, someone else already has [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Matty B</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matty B</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Missing one. The indecisive client. These are the ones who know more about what they don&#039;t want than what they do want. You can either ditch these guys or be showing new designs to them until you die. It&#039;s a lot like trying to open a lock when you don&#039;t know the last two numbers in the combination.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Missing one. The indecisive client. These are the ones who know more about what they don&#8217;t want than what they do want. You can either ditch these guys or be showing new designs to them until you die. It&#8217;s a lot like trying to open a lock when you don&#8217;t know the last two numbers in the combination.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of my client who was with me for the last few years, I designed a medium-sized Website for him then. But just recently, he decided to take everything down, and give it a re-design himself. Yes, himself. Whom only knew how to use abit of Photoshop and ProntPage.

I took down his site completely as he asked for, then he decided to put it all back on the next day, then decided not to few hours later. AND, thinking maybe I can be a good use later on so he might just well contact me when he got the design problems or something.

By the way, as far as I knowledged that we&#039;ve already ended our Website relationships fully as he asked for in the first place before we took down everything. Now, he&#039;s expecting me to be as a supporting person to his own design problems, without paying too much or free of charge.

He also has tones of #10 and #16 problems (on top of the article), and generally comes back once in a long while to update/change stuff with little pays or no payings at all.

Here&#039;s a good article which related to above problems I found lately, some of you might be interested: http://www.builderau.com.au/strategy/businessmanagement/soa/Dealing-with-nightmare-clients/0,339028271,339129591,00.htm

I&#039;m sure some of you might have this kind of issues too. And I&#039;m still seeking a good soluation to deal with this kind of clients.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my client who was with me for the last few years, I designed a medium-sized Website for him then. But just recently, he decided to take everything down, and give it a re-design himself. Yes, himself. Whom only knew how to use abit of Photoshop and ProntPage.</p>
<p>I took down his site completely as he asked for, then he decided to put it all back on the next day, then decided not to few hours later. AND, thinking maybe I can be a good use later on so he might just well contact me when he got the design problems or something.</p>
<p>By the way, as far as I knowledged that we&#8217;ve already ended our Website relationships fully as he asked for in the first place before we took down everything. Now, he&#8217;s expecting me to be as a supporting person to his own design problems, without paying too much or free of charge.</p>
<p>He also has tones of #10 and #16 problems (on top of the article), and generally comes back once in a long while to update/change stuff with little pays or no payings at all.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a good article which related to above problems I found lately, some of you might be interested: <a href="http://www.builderau.com.au/strategy/businessmanagement/soa/Dealing-with-nightmare-clients/0,339028271,339129591,00.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.builderau.com.au/strategy/businessmanagement/soa/Dealing-with-nightmare-clients/0,339028271,339129591,00.htm</a></p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure some of you might have this kind of issues too. And I&#8217;m still seeking a good soluation to deal with this kind of clients.</p>
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		<title>By: Kerrian</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kerrian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with you with all points and hope that &quot;we&quot; in  the profession learn from the pointers you have given. You have, in some sense helped to make our jobs &quot;easier&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with you with all points and hope that &#8220;we&#8221; in  the profession learn from the pointers you have given. You have, in some sense helped to make our jobs &#8220;easier&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Shelly</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Two of my favorites:

1) having an army of people emailing you to tell you what they think should be changed, and ALL of them say different things (which is why I *always* require one contact point)

2) thinking that you&#039;re on call 24/7, and demanding things from you on Christmas Day (or at midnight on a Sunday) and wondering why you haven&#039;t done it 5 seconds after they sent you the email on it, and threaten to fire you if you don&#039;t do it NOW (even though you won&#039;t see the email until days later)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two of my favorites:</p>
<p>1) having an army of people emailing you to tell you what they think should be changed, and ALL of them say different things (which is why I *always* require one contact point)</p>
<p>2) thinking that you&#8217;re on call 24/7, and demanding things from you on Christmas Day (or at midnight on a Sunday) and wondering why you haven&#8217;t done it 5 seconds after they sent you the email on it, and threaten to fire you if you don&#8217;t do it NOW (even though you won&#8217;t see the email until days later)</p>
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		<title>By: kathy</title>
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		<dc:creator>kathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wonderful post!!! Thank you for this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wonderful post!!! Thank you for this.</p>
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		<title>By: Monday, December 3, 2007 &#171; shiner.clay</title>
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		<dc:creator>Monday, December 3, 2007 &#171; shiner.clay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: thinkerpool.com: &#187; Linkswitch - Business + Web Design!</title>
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		<dc:creator>thinkerpool.com: &#187; Linkswitch - Business + Web Design!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 20 Horrible Habits of Clients - I love a good client whinge [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Linkswitch - Business + Web Design! - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Linkswitch - Business + Web Design! - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 20 Horrible Habits of Clients - I love a good client whinge [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Final Draft Design &#187; Blog Archive &#187; 20 Horrible Habits of Clients</title>
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		<dc:creator>Final Draft Design &#187; Blog Archive &#187; 20 Horrible Habits of Clients</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] I stumbled across a great article that I thought I&#8217;d share. Here are a few items that I found most interesting. The full list can be found after the jump, or by visiting youthedesigner.com. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: No es facil ser un diseÃ±ador profesional -</title>
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		<dc:creator>No es facil ser un diseÃ±ador profesional -</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Traducido por blogvecindadÂ  de 20 Horrible Habits of Clients [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Jacob Cass</title>
		<link>http://www.youthedesigner.com/2007/11/30/20-horrible-habits-of-clients/comment-page-2/#comment-1532</link>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Cass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi,

A very diggable post (thats where I found it). Will post this on my site, it&#039;s great :)

Jacob</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>A very diggable post (thats where I found it). Will post this on my site, it&#8217;s great <img src='http://www.youthedesigner.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Jacob</p>
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		<title>By: Horrible Habits of Clients</title>
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		<dc:creator>Horrible Habits of Clients</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] I have experienced all of the 20 horrible habits certain clients have in this post! Its draining and soooo annoying at times! Hopefully I will get better at avoiding this in the future&#160; :o) Click here to visit article &gt;&gt; [...]</description>
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		<title>By: vnposter &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Horrible habits of clients</title>
		<link>http://www.youthedesigner.com/2007/11/30/20-horrible-habits-of-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1491</link>
		<dc:creator>vnposter &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Horrible habits of clients</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Common list of issues designers have to deal with while working with clients on projects and how to avoid or solve those issues in a professional manner. Link [...]</description>
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