“The Earlier, the Better” When Asking Clients for Favors
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In many cases, your relations with a client are most positive shortly after you begin working with them.
It’s during this “honeymoon” period when the client is most enthusiastic about and communicative with your company.
It’s the golden period when you’re still getting to know each other and well before their questions and concerns might surface.
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There’s no better time for you to ask the client for leads, referrals, testimonials, permission to photograph the project and other favors.
There’s always the chance, of course, that you’ll stay on the very best of terms with your client throughout the relationship and will become the best of buddies thereafter.
Your goal should be to underpromise and overdeliver, providing the best in customer service.
But why take the chance? Why not take seek the client’s assistance early on, when the bells are ringing, the birds are singing, and everyone is on that “honeymoon high?”