I wear fairly simple (and I like to think professional and sophisticated) clothing to meetings. My client wears nothing but animal prints, strings of giant gold beads, and such, and sells costume jewelry in the same style. I figured out (correctly) that she would want a website based on said pattern.
Client: “I want my business to be like Mary Kay. God, I’m such a cougar. But what the h***, I’m proud of it. Anyway, I want my clients to host parties and to get free stuff for hosting while selling my jewelry to their friends.“
Me: “It’s a common business model, so it could be done. However, I’m a designer, not a business planner, so we should be discussing your design for the website and business cards.”
Client: “That’s my point!”
Me: “Sorry?”
Client: “If you sell jewelry for me, then you would have to make up business cards and e-vites, and then you could just forward them to me and I’ll change it from to your name to my name. Your money would come from stock sales. And in exchange for letting me use the e-vites and cards, I’ll give you some free gold jewelry!“
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The More You Read The Worse It Gets, Part 11
The More You Read The Worse It Gets, Part 10
The More You Read, The Worse It Gets, Part 9
The More You Read, The Worse It Gets, Part 8
The More You Read, The Worse It Gets, Part 7