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All agreed that bad clients were not worth it.
Laura Spencer has some advice for dealing with tire-kickers and other bad clients.
On a recent afternoon in the couple's chic, black-and-white East Side apartment, Mr. Vignelli, 81, schooled a visitor on bad clients and what makes good design and talked about how the partnership has changed since his wife's illness.
Pemba Janbu Sherpa, a guide who has been on 16 Everest expeditions, said when climbing conditions get bad, clients are prone to remind him that they have paid $50,000, saying, You are here to work for me, and you have to accompany me.
The first one is for good clients while the second one is for bad clients.
That might sound counterintuitive if your company is struggling just to scrape by in this difficult economic time, but you have to get rid of bad clients.
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What in your view is a bad client?
A bad client is a client that doesn't understand the role of the designer.
You tell design students not to work for a bad client.
While design students will come away quoting Mr. Vignelli's stiff-necked pronouncements ("From a bad client you get a worse client"), the film is all the more poignant because since its completion Mrs. Vignelli, 78, has grown increasingly ill with aphasia and is no longer able to work.
The client practically owns you, and that having a bad client can destroy a business.
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