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Types of customers you should avoid working with

 
 
 

By acclux team July 03 , 2014

Finding the customer of your dreams isn't always the case, as a business owner or a freelancer, you may deal with customers that can eventually hurt your business by wasting your time and efforts in endless projects with no paychecks in the horizon. With these types of customers, you will spend a lot of your time in endless meetings and emails going back and forth. You will end up by either no project or endless project. The better is to spend your time and efforts on finding the right customer who you can enjoy working with.

These are 6 types of customers you should say no to work with them

Customer with unrealistic requirements
The customer with unrealistic requirements “the dreamer” is the customer who wants to achieve too much in a project like if you are providing a service of building a mobile app or a website, this type of customer may ask you to combine all the features of the world's app in one single app.

Customers who doesn't value the type of the service you are providing
The customer who doesn't value what you are doing or providing, and wants the services at very low prices and huge amount of discounts.

Customer with no project specs and clear goals
The Customer who doesn't have a clear goal of his project, you will probably spend too much time with meeting and end up with no real project

Customer who wants to apply their rules to your policy
The customer who wants to do the business in his or her own way regardless of the policy you have. Remember, you may lose control of the project workflow and payment process.

Customer who brings new ideas all the time
The Customer who goes out of the project scope or project contract specifications and has new ideas come up in the middle of the project.

Customer who doesn't want to listen
The customer with one direction of communication, who doesn't want to listen to your comments or your thoughts.




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