The phrase "a real client" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an actual customer or user, often in contrast to hypothetical or fictional clients.
Example: "In our case studies, we focus on projects that were developed for a real client to showcase our capabilities."
Alternatives: "an actual client" or "a genuine client".
This time, though, I was a real client.
More than a dozen local ad executives said that using a real client could be a problem: Will the client feel pressured to participate?
It's useful for students to deal with a real client who has strong creative ideas, too, rather than an imagined commission from someone who won't talk back.
If I had been a real client with a high-threat level, Mr. Davis would have checked the guest list of each party in advance to see if there were any known troublemakers.
Because it was not always possible to observe a real client visit (the total fertility rate in Armenia is a low 1.7 live births/woman – DHS 2000) [ 13], providers were sometimes asked to simulate a situation with a second interviewer standing in for the client (analyses will take this into account).
Case simulation might not replicate entirely the quality and completeness of the normal exchange occurring during direct observation of a provider with a real client, thus producing lower performance scores and possibly affecting the appearance of performance factors in unknown ways [ 17].
Consider each member to be a potential client or customer and give them the quality service you would any real client or customer.
A week at leading international law firm Herbert Smith, sitting with an associate solicitor and taking part in "real client work", was billed as "arguably a great opportunity".
The Solicitor General was blown away, not because he wasn't a competent litigator, but because his real client in this case -- the health insurance industry -- is indefensible.
(Brantley) 'Apple' (closes on Sunday) Andy, a laid-off loser, has an affair with a hot stranger who improbably turns out to be both a real estate client of and clinician to his shrewish, cancer-stricken wife.
The Indian operation of a worldwide advertising agency has fired employees and apologized after an uproar over fake celebrity poster ads that were created for a real agency client, Ford Motor, without Ford's approval or authorization.
