Re: FN-FORUM Difficult clients part II

date posted 28th January 2001 12:31

You can hire meeting rooms from big hotels, and that's what I'd do for a
serious meeting.

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[EMAIL REMOVED] (Jo Hall) wrote:

> Thanks everyone for your valuable input. I *do* have a strong gut
> feeling
> about this client but he did call me last night and gave me some cock
> and
> bull story about being in the wrong cafe, leaving his mobile at home by
> mistake, very sorry....blah..blah.
>
> So this got me thinking again - do any of you work from home on a full
> time
> basis? If you do, where do you arrange to meet clients? This is the
> first
> time I have arranged to meet someone who also doesn't have premises and
> it's
> proven to be a bit of a nightmare. I've thought about hotel lobbies and
> cafes (such as yesterday) but they all seem a bit seedy. Any ideas?
>
> And as for ensuring payment, I do always insist of 1/3 of the full fee
> up
> front *and* full payment before the site is taken from my test aread
> onto
> their own domain. At first I thought that there would be some
> resistance to
> this but none so far.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Jo
> Indigo Web Design
>
>