Being a freelancer requires, partly, a mind-reading skill. Depending on the type of client, they’ll usually have designs in their heads and it’s your job to extract this visualisation and get it down into a workable design. It also requires translation skills, yes, I’m talking about those phrases that always tend to crop up when you get a new client, some feedback or as part of the brief. These are some of the phrases that I’ve found to be the most popular:
- “Make it pop”
- “Make it look like mint.com”
- “I need a million dollar site”
- “Make it bluer/greener/redder/“
- “I need this done yesterday”
- “If I bring you [X] amount of work what discount can you offer?”
- “I’ll send it round the office and see what the others think”
- “That’s a little out of my [$50] budget”
- “I’ve got it! Add a key-line through the middle!”
- “I love it! Can you change this and this and this and this and this….”
- “Can you make the logo bigger?”
- “Do I have to pay the whole bill at once?”
I’m sure there are more, be great to hear any others that I’ve missed!!
November 13th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Excellent! I think I have had everyone except #9.
How about “Can you make the logo bigger?”
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November 13th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Good one Zoe, definitely had that – added!
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November 25th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
LOL, very good stuff there…
How about “Do I have to pay the whole bill at once?” I get that quite often actually…
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November 26th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Paul – lol I’ve had that quite often, I’ll add it to the list.
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