Firing a Client
There was a time when the thought of firing a client was totally foreign to us.
Why one earth would anyone want to fire a client? Why would you want to let that income slip away? Why would you risk all the bad ‘press’ that a ditched client could deliver?
Needless to say since that time there have been several clients that we have fired and we know the answers to those questions we once asked.
You fire clients because they are so much trouble to deal with that you actually end up losing money rather thank making it from their work.
You let the income slip away from you because there either isn’t any in real terms or you find that you can make more if they and their work aren’t bugging you every day.
And sometimes you can avoid the bad press if you take the time to fire them in a nice way or maybe the cost of the ‘bad press’ is worth paying just to get rid of them.
To read someone else’s thoughts on firing clients follow the link to read Troy White’s thoughts on ‘How, when, and why you should fire the troublesome client.’
Troy describes the result of firing a difficult client as “liberatinr” - we have only one thing to say about that - “AMEN BROTHER!”
