During all these years working has a freelancer several times I had troubles with clients. If you are a freelancer or you have a company that provides design services you know what I’m talking about.

You win a project. Everything starts great. You show concept to the client and he loves it and then when you almost finish the project he tells you:

You know what? This is not what I expect. I don’t like this design. I saw this one is much better.

There is a simple way to fix this problem. Will not work 100% of the time but will save you a lot of times from future changes on projects.

If your client asks you a website or a logo what you should do is to give him 2 or 3 options. And ask him directly what approach he want you to follow. This work well for 2 reasons.

First:

People love to have the idea that they have power. For example when you go to a fast food restaurant. If you take a look at the menu and you have like 4 or 5 options you feel great. We love some sort of decision power. The food is almost all the same but you can choose and you don’t even have to think much. So cool!

Second:

You forced him to make a decision. So you are protecting yourself. At least if the customer wants to make changes in the future he has to admit that he made a wrong decision.

One more thing:

The idea is not to be mean or lazy. But most client’s don’t really know what they want so when you provide 2 options you are actually increasing the chances of showing him something that he really likes.

At the end of the day clients always have the final word. But there are couple tricks like this that can help you on a long run.

My Day 14/28

Today i finish my tool to contact companies automatic to offer my services. I manage to program 7 hours

✔ Wake at 6AM (oh yeah baby)

✔ Walk 7KM

✔ 13 Hours of productivity (7 of programming)

✔ Follow my schedule

✔ My tool is ready i plan to start to contacting clients 16 fb

✘ Leave computer at 8 PM