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How not to be pushy as a social media consultant
Read more: How not to be pushy as a social media consultantWhen you’re a social media consultant, it can be really easy to slide into pushy mode. Your client isn’t making a great decision, so you want to push them to the right one. Your client wants you to give them free work, so you have to push them towards understanding why that’s unethical. These kinds…
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Managing Social Media Client Expectations
Read more: Managing Social Media Client Expectations“Yes, when I worked with her before, I increased her company’s engagement by 5000%.” The second those words left my mouth in a prospective social media client meeting I wanted to pluck them from the air and stuff them back in as quickly as possible. But I said it. The prospect heard it. And now…
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How to Manage Multiple Clients
Read more: How to Manage Multiple ClientsYou’ve done it. You finally have multiple clients with competing interests to juggle. You’ve been working toward this. Maybe it’s the first time you’ve ever had to do this. So you’re next question is: What do I do now? I’ve been there. I know my first time doing this on my own was rough, but…
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Client Boundaries from a Recovering People Pleaser
Read more: Client Boundaries from a Recovering People PleaserClient boundaries are hard. It’s hard to know when you are asking for the right things and then it’s hard to enforce those boundaries when the client tiptoes through the tulips while you’re depending on them for a paycheck. The older I get, the more likely I am to say, “This is not working for…
