For me, it would be for my clients (both agencies and normal) to realize how important good code is and that they should invest the money in a good developer. I can’t tell you how many times a client will pay $2,000 for the design, and only $500 for the coding (which is harder, btw)
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For me, I would change the belief (of some of my clients, not all) that freelancers are not “real workers” and thus freelancers quotes have to be discussed and then cut.
That’s a good one
Two things:
1) We are just as busy as regular 9-5 workers. Just because most of us work from home doesn’t mean we juts goofing around.
2) The same as yours. Even though up until now my clients were willing to pay appropriate amount of cash for coding – they still don’t understand why a good code is vital. It then results in “leave it like that” or “we don’t care, just skip it and move on”.
Exactly. More than 2 days notice would be nice when scheduling.
I wish clients would realize that what we do isn’t copy and paste. We aren’t slapping together a cheesy Powerpoint presentation or boring Word document. What we do takes talent, creativity and constant learning to stay on top of our skills and changing technology.
LOL Another good one
heh you could attract the wrong kind of attention calling designing easy
I didn’t say it was easy, I just said coding was harder.
It’s not hard to understand the point of view of clients, they wouldn’t like to spend a lot of money on something which they don’t see. get my point?
Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s ignored by clients or it’s not important. You don’t see the suspension of your car….do you think you’d have still bought it if the car salesman told you it was a cheap suspension? You don’t see your arteries, yet you don’t stuff yourself with cholesterol intensive food (I hope).
In someways it’s not the clients that I want to change but the other people that are filling their heads with bad information. I recently had a client that was completely satisfied with the site and the price until the business owner next to him starting saying he could have built the same site in 20 min and websites are easy to build…and that I was basically ripping him off.
To make a long story short I lost a SEO contract and haven’t received the rest of my money for the site because of this guy.
I would change their understanding of the need of a solid web presence. The web can be just as great of a place for building your brand as real life while used correctly. In example, Facebook isn’t a cool club, but everyone is always talking about it.
I wish people understood the power of the web for their business. While it may not make total sense to create something the same as facebook with your company’s branding, you can launch a great online advertising campaign. For this, I am thinking of “free credit report” with their great, catchy songs. Everyone sung those, and they were in my head, 6 months after the campaign ended.
I wish they would worship me more … that way when I make a good suggestion they’ll think it’s awesome instead of providing their own bad version and insisting on using it.