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This is piece of advice #4 for WordPress Website Designers on working with clients.

4. Over deliver and under promise.

• You can’t promise to get a client on page one of Google.
• You can’t promise a newly designed website will guarantee loads of new sales.
• You can’t promise a new website in 24 hours.

Your clients also run businesses, they understand that things take time. They don’t appreciate lies or missed deadlines. Go back to your signed contract, deliver more than what you say you will deliver before when you said you would deliver it.  This will keep your relationship strong and encourage future business and referrals for new projects.

Previous Tips for WordPress Website Designers:

1. Having a Signed Contract
2. Negotiating Rates for Website Design
3. Why it is Important for Website Designers to Maintain A Good Relationships with Clients

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If you are searching through this site chances are great that you either have a client that needs a website, or you are about to land one.  Terrific! This series of ten posts outlines basic advice for WordPress website designers on how to deal with clients.

2. Don’t negotiate your rates.

There will be times when you volunteer your services or take on a project because you want to help out someone in need. We have all done this and it makes sense in a lot of situations, set out the parameters of what you are willing to do in the spirit of philanthropy. Where possible, ask the business that you donated your time to for a letter of confirmation for tax purposes or work out a trade that is mutually beneficial to both of you. If you change your price you will feel compromised from the very start which isn’t the best way to begin any project.

At WordPress Theme Advis0r, we have built hundreds of sites and dealt with an enormous amount of clients, we are here to help and help you learn from some of our mistakes.  Any feedback?  We would love to here, just leave a comment below.

See Tip 1. Advice to Web Designers on Dealing with Clients: Signed Contract

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If you are searching through this site, chances are great that you either have a client that needs a website, or you are about to land one.  Terrific!  The next ten posts are going to give you some advice for WordPress website designers on how to deal with clients.

1. Before starting any project have a signed contract:

It is important to have a document that both parties have read and agree to. It is important to list out each element that you will complete, no matter how small the details seem: Installing Google Analytics or building a site map, it all needs to be written out so the parameters are clear.

This is super relevant in relation to the billing schedule. We have had clients where the agreement is half up front, half at the end, yet the client can’t make decisions and the end never seems to arrive. If you have it written in your contract that if the project takes longer than X amount of time, due to their indecision’s, you will invoice them regardless of whether the site is complete or not.

At WordPress Theme Advis0r, we have built hundreds of sites and dealt with an enormous amount of clients, we are here to help and help you learn from some of our mistakes.  Any feedback?  We would love to here, just leave a comment below.

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