I hate being teased. I hate being told I am going to get something and then not get it.
Please don’t tell me you are going to have me design your website if you’re never going to actually design it. Don’t come up to me and say, “I need a website done†if you are never going to follow-up with it. I wouldn’t have been doing the website anyhow if you hadn’t told me, so I would rather not be teased with the prospect of another website.
Please don’t tell me that you told your friend to contact me to do a website. Every time someone has told me this, it has not resulted in a new client. Don’t tease me with it.
I am a professional web designer. I feed my family with web design. I clothe my family with web design. I put gas in my van with web design.
I don’t need to be jerked around like I am some high school student cranking out 25-buck websites out of his basement.
I deserve respect.
Amen to that. If I had a dime for everytime someone flippantly said they “need” a website, I’d be able to pay off all my student loans (maybe not all).
I mainly work with churches, of which the pastors think they just need to fill in the checkbox on a list. In my opinion, many churches do themselves a disservice by having very poorly designed websites.
So yeah, I share in your frustration with people who act like they’re going to hire you, but never do. Even more frustrating are the people who hire, but never pay.
In those cases, all I can do is pray for patience.