{"id":7210,"date":"2020-07-19T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=7210"},"modified":"2023-07-19T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T21:02:21","slug":"negiotiate-with-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/editorials\/negiotiate-with-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"How to negotiate with clients and come out a winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago, I wrote an article<\/a> about a video I watched from Mike Monteiro about the frustration of not getting paid by clients as a freelancer.<\/i><\/p>\n

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The video, aptly titled, \u201cF**k you, pay me,\u201d speaks to the heart of the matter many real estate folks, freelancers, and entrepreneurs encounter on a regular basis: you\u2019ve completed all the hard work the client asked you to do and now it comes time for them to hold up their end of the agreement and pay you; only they don\u2019t. You\u2019re left angry, befuddled, and wondering how you can prevent this from happening again. Even with the best system in place, there\u2019s always a client who will find a loophole. <\/a>So, what is a professional to do?<\/p>\n

Take yourself seriously<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what you do. You stop putting yourself last. You stop treating your profession like a hobby. You stop blaming clients, systems, and other things for all that confusion and frustration. You take a step back and ask yourself, \u201cwhat can I do next time to prevent this from happening?\u201d<\/p>\n

Monteiro suggests finding, hiring, and relying upon a legal expert to create a legally binding document that holds you and your clients to the standards that come with running a business. If they delay the process by not providing information in a timely manner, you should have a clause for that. If you delay the process for any reason, there should be a clause for that. There should be a clause for every eventuality.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to plan for everything, but your framework should be solid; okay, it should be virtually impenetrable. This keeps \u201cbad clients\u201d from being an everyday annoyance, to a once-in-a-while hassle.<\/p>\n

Not a reflection of you<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bad clients can break your spirit, your productivity, and your confidence. There are always going to be people who will undervalue you and underappreciate you. Don\u2019t believe them. You\u2019ve made it this far; you have to be doing something right. When someone gets breaks through your contract, your confidence, or your perseverance, it is not a testament to your shortcomings. It is a testament to your capabilities.<\/p>\n

Once you\u2019ve stepped back, reassessed, rewritten, and picked yourself up, you know you will prevent the next bad client from getting through in the same way, no matter which line they\u2019ve broken through. If nothing else, bad clients are a learning experience; each one teaches us something about ourselves and our business.<\/p>\n

Remember:  \u201cLife is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it\u201d -Charles Swindoll.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bad clients can break your spirit, your productivity, and your confidence. So, what is a professional to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335817,"featured_media":19307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[807,806,903,616,1234],"class_list":["post-7210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","tag-client","tag-customer","tag-get-paid","tag-legal","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Two-sales-people-shaking-hands.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20965,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions\/20965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}