Jeremy Mura walks through red flags that signal a difficult client: vague briefs, haggling over price, unclear brand vision, and slow responses. Screen them early with a questionnaire or initial call, then pass on the ones who show these signs.
So how do you avoid scammy clients? Especially if you're a freelancer or a designer, you're going to experience times where you get some dodgy clients coming in. You know, you always want to make sure that you're attracting the right clients and clients that are trustworthy, that are relatable to work with, that are personable, that actually want to add value to their business and that care about design. And you don't just want to work with anyone. So you to avoid these, you know, dodgy scamming clients because we may experience them, something here and there, we want to avoid it at all costs. We have to spot the red flags. So you want to identify the red flags at the first meeting or at the first questionnaire at the beginning of the project, not halfway through. Because if you start the project and then you realize the client's not responding to your emails or your calls, you can't get in contact with him, he's not paying, then you're going to start getting frustrated. So you want to spot these Reddit flags and identify the issues that you see. For example, if I have a questionnaire on my contacts page and maybe I have about 10 questions and maybe they go in and only fill about two or three questions and they put like tiny bit of information, that's a red flag. So I'm gonna see, okay, they're not putting the effort to fill in my questionnaire. Do they really care? Are they really serious? Maybe they don't really have money, like things like that. And especially if it's about money, maybe they get a bit weird when you start talking about money upfront and maybe they just start saying, oh, can I get a discount or this other guy's cheaper or blah blah, blah. If they start saying things like that, then you can see that maybe they're a low budget or low baller client and you don't want that because they're not going to value the work because you're going to give them a discount and then they're going to see you or you're just discounting so you don't value your own work. That's just a couple examples of red flags. So you always want to spot them at the beginning of the project before you even take payment or start. Keep an eye for those red flags. Make sure your website is, you know, it's good to have a questionnaire or you have like an upfront consulting call where you can actually discuss and talk with the client and ask a lot of questions. And if they don't have a lot of information or they're not sure on their brand and vision. Maybe you can help them with that with their brand strategy but other times maybe they're just like you know they're at a stage where they're not ready to do design or their business is literally not even started yet and they're just like dabbling and they just have some thoughts or an idea but they're actually not it hasn't manifested yet into a starting stage. So you got to ask yourself these questions and be aware, be alert and if there's red flags run from the client you know you'll get another client. You can say no because you can always say yes to better opportunities down the line. Hope this was helpful guys. Let me know in the comments below what type of videos you want to see. Don't forget to hit that like button because it really helps me out. And don't forget to subscribe for more content every week.
