{"id":1465,"date":"2015-08-22T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T22:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.la.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=1465"},"modified":"2015-10-06T14:19:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T21:19:50","slug":"your-client-is-not-your-enemy","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/session\/your-client-is-not-your-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Your client is not your enemy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Learn to embrace the client dynamic and avoid one of the most common mistakes in running a creative business. Treat your client as an adversary and you will foster a short term relationship that is contentious and unfruitful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As design professionals, we need to let go of the \u201cartist\u201d persona and embrace the creative entrepreneur as one who solves not just design problems but business problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Learn how to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pivot when you are getting negative feedback<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Define objective goals to reduce frustration and endless revision cycles<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Talk about money<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Charge for value versus time<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/b7ldglrf9yyjq53\/AADaViPw-AeN8m5eJKfPM8pra?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\">Slides<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn to embrace the client dynamic and avoid one of the most common mistakes in running a creative business. Treat your client as an adversary and you will foster a short term relationship that is contentious and unfruitful. As design &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/session\/your-client-is-not-your-enemy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Your client is not your enemy.<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13808511,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1443283200,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[1462],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[561043],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-1465","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-point-break"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5oCQi-nD","session_date_time":{"date":"September 26, 2015","time":"9:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"1462","slug":"chris-do","name":"Chris Do","link":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/chris-do\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13808511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1465\/revisions\/3555"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}