Comments on: 5 Ways to Get Your Clients to Follow Your Work Process http://gigaom.com/collaboration/5-ways-to-get-your-clients-to-follow-your-work-process/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 4 Signs That Your Potential Clients Aren’t Interested (and What to Do About It) http://gigaom.com/collaboration/5-ways-to-get-your-clients-to-follow-your-work-process/#comment-81510 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:02:17 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=10521#comment-81510 [...] mistake. If it’s the latter, it’s usually easy to have a conversation about the best work process for both parties. But if you’ve tried to talk to them about it and all you get is, “So [...]

]]> By: stickysteph http://gigaom.com/collaboration/5-ways-to-get-your-clients-to-follow-your-work-process/#comment-81509 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:34:27 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=10521#comment-81509 The first bullet of this post really struck me. Of course! Why would I NOT have the typical steps of a project on my site?? Seems so obvious. I’m off to work on this right now…

Thanks for the helpful tip!

]]> By: 5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week http://gigaom.com/collaboration/5-ways-to-get-your-clients-to-follow-your-work-process/#comment-81508 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:01:15 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=10521#comment-81508 [...] 5 Ways to Get Your Clients to Follow Your Work Process [...]

]]> By: scop http://gigaom.com/collaboration/5-ways-to-get-your-clients-to-follow-your-work-process/#comment-81507 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:51:49 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=10521#comment-81507 At the beginning make an appointment so that they know they have to give you some of their time to complete a plan, then when completed email it to them.

If you have a consultancy agreement then include it in the agreement.

]]> By: Luca Candela http://gigaom.com/collaboration/5-ways-to-get-your-clients-to-follow-your-work-process/#comment-81506 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:31:31 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=10521#comment-81506 Nice post. Adding on the “face the consequences” part of it, as a project manager I can’t stress enough the importance of periodic, well documented sign off meetings. This is the best and only way to ensure that you will not waste dozens of hours re-working on what you thought was agreed and set in stone.

Make sure you get approvals in writing, and that you outline the cost (economic, that is) of changing anything. Change doesn’t have to be impossible, but it ALWAYS has a cost.

]]> By: Minneapolis Web Design Company http://gigaom.com/collaboration/5-ways-to-get-your-clients-to-follow-your-work-process/#comment-81505 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:55:47 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=10521#comment-81505 We use ActiveCollab and it works well for us when communicating with clients but they have to be somewhat web savvy to use it.

It’s important on large projects becuase communication can break down very quickly if you don’t have a central location to manage the conversation. Thanks for the great post!

]]> By: C.A. Simmons http://gigaom.com/collaboration/5-ways-to-get-your-clients-to-follow-your-work-process/#comment-81504 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:10:40 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=10521#comment-81504 Excellent post. I’m currently exploring ways to optimize communications with clients now.

I really have some things to think about now.

]]> By: Carol Cox http://gigaom.com/collaboration/5-ways-to-get-your-clients-to-follow-your-work-process/#comment-81503 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:33:02 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=10521#comment-81503 Celine,

Thanks for the great article! I completely agree with you. I actually wrote a very similar post on my blog a few weeks ago about the importance of giving deadlines to your clients.

I look forward to reading more of your posts.

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