Stefan Georgi warns freelancers against asking clients too many questions, which signals lack of confidence and kills deals. Instead, clarify scope upfront, ask only what matters, use examples to show what you mean, and deliver results confidently.
Hey, what's up? It's Stefan here. I'm gonna make this one pretty quick. I am in my closet upstairs, my house in Vegas, because I have Covid, and my wife and daughter are downstairs, and I'm not shaving as I normally would be either. But overall, don't feel too bad. Thank goodness hasn't been awful. Anyway, point of today's video, and again, making it quick. It's just about making life easier for clients. One thing I found, people have made this mistake so many times, especially other freelancers. But my cat, you know, if you want to see, see him there. Just helping out with the video. Hopefully you saw him. Is that your clients don't. They want to be guided, and they want, like, to be told, like, what to do, basically, right? So the mistake I see is people come in and get hired by a client or they're working for a client and they're trying to get hired, and they start to ask so many questions, right? They start. They want to get on phone call. This is a freelancer. The freelancer wants to get on phone calls. They want to, you know, can you give me all this information? When do you need it? By, like, all those kinds of questions you're asking? I understand why you'd want to ask, when does the client need it? And, you know, whatever the work is you're doing. But at the same time, what ends up happening is you kind of turn off the client, overwhelming them. You start to feel like work. If you have all these questions that you're asking and the client has to answer them, and then you're coming with ideas and asking for their permission, really, it betrays a lack of confidence. That's the big thing that I think more than anything, like, you should understand. I think a lot of early on, freelancers and people who work with clients ask a lot of questions because they're not confident, and they feel like by asking more questions, they're going to get the magic answer that makes them feel more confident. But it really just betrays that lack of confidence to the client, and it doesn't really do you a ton of good. A lot of times, the project is pretty simple, and you don't need to overcomplicate it. It's just your fear of not doing a good job, of not delivering for the client, of not getting hired again, of not having more opportunities that leads you to ask so many questions. So really, I think when you work with clients, like, I'm not saying don't ever ask questions, you may need to clarify that's totally okay. But don't rely on questions as a clutch and don't ask so many questions. I think that's really important. Generally find out the scope of work. Find out what the deliverables are. You can look and model off of stuff. If they have an example, you can say, hey, do you have an example that you want me to kind of model off of or that you like they normally do and then do the work and do the job. The simpler and easier that you can make life for a client, the better it's going to be, the happier they're going to be and the more likely they are to actually hire you again. So they're hiring you to make their lives easier, not more complicated or difficult. So that's my kind of takeaway and hopefully you'll take that to heart and I'll see you soon with another video. By the way, if you appreciate this, if there's value, make sure you hit the like button. Subscribe, leave a comment, all that good stuff. Because I would love to make more videos talking about this kind of stuff.
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