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I finally gave up on a big client after a conference call disaster
It was a Zoom meeting with their whole team, about 12 people, last Tuesday. I was pitching a new social media plan and one of their VPs just kept talking over me, saying stuff like 'we just need more viral content' without any real plan. I realized they had no clue what they wanted and were going to make my life a nightmare for months. I sent an email the next morning saying I couldn't take the project. It felt scary to walk away from that money, but my time is worth more than that stress. Has anyone else had to fire a client right when a project was about to start?
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diana_kim668d ago
Wait, they had twelve people on a single Zoom call? That sounds like a total mess from the start.
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jamie_adams7d ago
Honestly, good call walking away. I had a client like that who kept changing the goals every meeting. They'd ask for more leads, then switch to brand awareness, then complain the content wasn't funny enough. You dodged months of rewrites for free. Always trust that gut feeling when a call shows their real work style. The money isn't worth your sanity.
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