Have an agency we've worked for for years. Contributed to a lot of our revenue early days but has dropped off sharply as they've downsized and the two main guys near retirement and just don't do a lot of sales. Maybe one job every 6 months if we're lucky.
One in particular treats us as though we're on a retainer and constantly asks for proof of concept type things with animation. 'Can you do this effect?' 'Yes, it would take X weeks @ Y cost'. 'ok, well we've got a meeting with a client to sell this effect in 2 weeks so if you can share an example in 1 week so we know if we can do it or not in case we need to go back to the drawing board.'
I typically busy myself with other things but they're still tedious requests to have to give more than a seconds thought to.
Have an agency we've worked for for years. Contributed to a lot of our revenue early days but has dropped off sharply as they've downsized and the two main guys near retirement and just don't do a lot of sales. Maybe one job every 6 months if we're lucky.
One in particular treats us as though we're on a retainer and constantly asks for proof of concept type things with animation. 'Can you do this effect?' 'Yes, it would take X weeks @ Y cost'. 'ok, well we've got a meeting with a client to sell this effect in 2 weeks so if you can share an example in 1 week so we know if we can do it or not in case we need to go back to the drawing board.'
I typically busy myself with other things but they're still tedious requests to have to give more than a seconds thought to.
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