Introduction
Hi Guys! This is my first article! I have wanted to write this article forever! I am so glad that I finally get the opportunity to reach out!
How To Do The Best For Your Clients
So, this article is How to Do Your Best for Your Clients! Which I know a lot of you really want to know! I’m just kidding, when I started out, I really needed to know! Or, I wish I would have known better 🙁 Wahhh Wahhh 🙁 I’m just kidding, well I just had a baby! Haha! Anyways…!!!!
1.) Don’t sell yourself short! Many companies or clients will try to lead you to believe in a Contract making process that you are somehow negotiating the value of the work that you are bringing to the table, or going to be doing for them. Do not let your guard down! In these instances you could have the tendency to suddenly second-guess the quality (value) of your own work! Suddenly you lose sight of what you even thought you were going to do for the company in the first place! Haha! Don’t let this happen! You may not be where you want to be in the quality of your work but that still doesn’t mean that the progress you have made isn’t valuable! I can say this because I crumbled in a lot of Contract Agreements because I lost sight of how I was going to be valuable to the company because the client was trying to hustle me to lower my rate… At the end of the day, in hindsight, when I may look at who the company has hired now! I am at the same skills set – if I don’t know more! I am still sitting here now second-guessing myself! I’m just kidding!!! But, seriously! There have been instances where I finally valued myself during these meets and that’s when I always do the best!
2.) Don’t let the unknown hinder you from getting started working! Often times, when I was at work, I would become afraid of working, literally, because I was afraid to get started! They call this paralysis by analysis! And that sucks! Don’t let an overwhelming task or to:do list handicap you and prevent you from producing quality results! The longer it takes you to get started, the longer it will take you to get quality results! You’ll look up and it’s taken way longer than it should have to get a result that you’ll realize was never that astronomical in the first place! Even if you do a little bit at work one day, don’t procrastinate and not get started for fear of the “unknown.” That’s all I can say about this. I just have had the opportunity to work for a company during two different time periods and I found my success increased 150% when I didn’t waste time getting started due to fear!
3.) Understand your client’s expectations! I cannot emphasize, BOLD!, exclamation point this enough! If your client gives you a list of their expectations for their social media, that is also the goal that you desire. It can be very tempting to have an ulterior goal but please do not let your great talents be squandered by knowing what the client needs better than the client! I’m just kidding again! No, I am serious, it took me a second before I realized that because I was the expert on the subject matter that I literally made my job more complicated because I wanted so badly to do what I saw as the epitome of my job role’s success and hijacked my relationship with my client because they knew what they needed social media to do for their company! It is one of the funniest lose-lose situations in the fact that you are trying to do your best work and the client is trying to pay you to do a job that they need you to do because you have the skillsz (HaHa)! To say this more clearly: OFTEN TIMES (Im just kidding!!!) Haha! I mean to say… Often times I would go into a meeting about doing some work for a client and I outlined or laid out what goals I intended on achieving for the client’s social media success, let’s say to see a percentage increase in followers. When, in fact, the client was looking for me to actually use social media as a means to merely post about community events to their social media page. Now, you would think that the client would be looking for them to have an increase in followers on their social media page, or that somehow posting community events would somehow be tied into us also increasing their followers on their social media accounts. But at the end of the day, I would have focused so much on increasing their followers (my own goal) that I didn’t focus on what they wanted from their social media (and that was to post community events on their page)! Unfortunately, we both lost in that equation. So, don’t do this! If a client explicitly states that they are not so much concerned about the amount of people following them but whether they just have content posted everyday, take them at their word for this! That is your goal!
3.) Understand your client’s expectations! I cannot emphasize, BOLD!, exclamation point this enough! If your client gives you a list of their expectations for their social media, that is also the goal that you desire. It can be very tempting to have an ulterior goal but please do not let your great talents be squandered by knowing what the client needs better than the client! I’m just kidding again! No, I am serious, it took me a second before I realized that because I was the expert on the subject matter that I literally made my job more complicated because I wanted so badly to do what I saw as the epitome of my job role’s success and hijacked my relationship with my client because they knew what they needed social media to do for their company! It is one of the funniest lose-lose situations in the fact that you are trying to do your best work and the client is trying to pay you to do a job that they need you to do because you have the skillsz (HaHa)! To say this more clearly: OFTEN TIMES (Im just kidding!!!) Haha! I mean to say… Often times I would go into a meeting about doing some work for a client and I outlined or laid out what goals I intended on achieving for the client’s social media success, let’s say to see a percentage increase in followers. When, in fact, the client was looking for me to actually use social media as a means to merely post about community events to their social media page. Now, you would think that the client would be looking for them to have an increase in followers on their social media page, or that somehow posting community events would somehow be tied into us also increasing their followers on their social media accounts. But at the end of the day, I would have focused so much on increasing their followers (my own goal) that I didn’t focus on what they wanted from their social media (and that was to post community events on their page)! Unfortunately, we both lost in that equation. So, don’t do this! If a client explicitly states that they are not so much concerned about the amount of people following them but whether they just have content posted everyday, take them at their word for this! That is your goal!
Final Note
“Do you know what’s there? Waiting? Beyond that beach? Immortality. Take it (2004)!”
Petersen, Wolfgang, Rathbun, Diana, & Wilson, Colin (Producer), & Petersen, Wolfgang (Director). (2004). Troy [Motion picture]. United States, United Kingdom, & Malta: Warner Bros. Pictures
