Do you embrace your clients?
Do you have fun with them?
Do you socialize with them ?
Over many many years I have built relationships with my clients, hell I know more about them than their husbands (or wives) boyfriends or partners.
I enjoy their company and often take the relationship further meeting their partners, having dinner with them, sharing a glass of wine with them and their partner (last client of the day only).
This has never affected my professional relationship with them, they still pay full price and they still respect me, my professionalism and my professional advice.
I have made many new friends and acquaintances in my long long years in the industry (and keep many secrets)
Do you have fun with clients .... or do you put up a brick wall and shut them out of your personal life?
If so, what the hell do you talk about?
I know all my clients problems, both professional and personal, I know when they feel happy (and what makes them happy) and I know when they are sad (and what makes them sad) ..... hell I even know most of their menstrual cycles .......
I let them know about my life too, my ups, my downs, my round and rounds.
Many of them are my Facebook friends too.
Do you have friends that started off as clients? Or do you remain the consummate professional robot?
Do you have fun with them?
Do you socialize with them ?
Over many many years I have built relationships with my clients, hell I know more about them than their husbands (or wives) boyfriends or partners.
I enjoy their company and often take the relationship further meeting their partners, having dinner with them, sharing a glass of wine with them and their partner (last client of the day only).
This has never affected my professional relationship with them, they still pay full price and they still respect me, my professionalism and my professional advice.
I have made many new friends and acquaintances in my long long years in the industry (and keep many secrets)
Do you have fun with clients .... or do you put up a brick wall and shut them out of your personal life?
If so, what the hell do you talk about?
I know all my clients problems, both professional and personal, I know when they feel happy (and what makes them happy) and I know when they are sad (and what makes them sad) ..... hell I even know most of their menstrual cycles .......
I let them know about my life too, my ups, my downs, my round and rounds.
Many of them are my Facebook friends too.
Do you have friends that started off as clients? Or do you remain the consummate professional robot?