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Poll: With regards to direct clients, I find it most difficult to:
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Valeria Bazúa
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
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Other Oct 27, 2022

I have three regular direct clients and they have been with me for some time. I didn’t find them, they found me, either by word of mouth, my website or Proz.com (I was contacted some time ago by a direct client – an international organization – for a very profitable and enjoyable project, another one followed some months later).

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neilmac
Philip Lees
 
Christopher Schröder
Christopher Schröder
United Kingdom
Member (2011)
Swedish to English
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Find them Oct 27, 2022

If you can’t keep clients, you need to change career.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Lieven Malaise
neilmac
Philip Lees
Robert Rietvelt
 
neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 22:38
Spanish to English
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Other Oct 27, 2022

I find it most difficult to juggle them all. Especially the ones whose names are similar. Admin is not my strongest point, so keeping abreast of who's who and who has paid and who hasn't and who has asked for an estimate and who hasn't... is what I usually struggle with. But I'm not complaining
 
Ana Vozone
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None of the above Oct 27, 2022

I (honestly) do not have difficulties with my direct clients, everything is "harmonious". I have worked with some of these direct clients for many years, with no difficulties or problems, really.

peter jackson
Philip Lees
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Muriel Vasconcellos
neilmac
 
Philip Lees
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Greece
Local time: 23:38
Greek to English
None Oct 28, 2022

Ana Vozone wrote:

I (honestly) do not have difficulties with my direct clients, everything is "harmonious". I have worked with some of these direct clients for many years, with no difficulties or problems, really.


What Ana said. Most of my work is for direct clients, and most of them were referred to me by other direct clients of mine. There is rarely anything to negotiate, once the initial terms are established and agreed upon, and maintaining the relationship follows from my delivering what I promise.

This is the algorithm: client asks "Can you do this?"; I say "Yes"; I do it; they pay me. Simple.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Muriel Vasconcellos
neilmac
Christopher Schröder
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
 


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