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The Heart & Hustle Podcast

326: What To Do When a Client is Upset

The Heart & Hustle Podcast

The Heart University

Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When running a business, you will inevitably run into people who had a different expectation of what you were giving them, and when they don't receive it will get angry. Very angry. So… what do you do when that happens? When a client starts raging, threatening to sue, leaving nasty emails, publicly slandering you… it can feel like a LOT. 

SO today we are sitting down and walking you through what WE do in circumstances like this, what we recommend, how to solve the situation as best you can, and how to do so with integrity and grace.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Heart and Hustle podcast. We are your hosts Evie McCloud and

0:03.8

Lindsay Roman. Welcome to the show my friend. Hit that subscribe button so you will be

0:07.7

notified every time we drop a new episode. And if you haven't taken two minutes

0:11.0

to leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, please do that, especially if you're an avid listener to this show, and I just thank you for that in advance.

0:19.4

Now today we are diving into some uncomfortable situations.

0:23.7

Every entrepreneur has either experienced a situation

0:26.2

with an unhappy client or is in constant fear

0:28.9

of a situation happening in the future, right?

0:30.6

Can we get an amen?

0:32.0

So either way, when running a business, you will inevitably

0:34.8

run into people who have had just, you know, a different expectation of what you were giving them

0:39.3

or you drop the ball on giving them that expectation or you know whatever and then when they

0:43.4

don't receive it they get angry and very angry you know so what do we do when

0:48.9

that happens when a client starts you know raging or threatening to sue or leaving nasty

0:54.4

e-mails or publicly slandering you online. It can just feel, it can just feel like a lot

0:59.7

right? Like and so today Evie and I are sitting down and walking through what we would do in certain circumstances like this and what we recommend and how to solve the situation as best you can and how to do so with integrity and grace because you know we're all about those things on the

1:13.7

Hartbessel Podcast so if you are ready to find out how to handle those super scary

1:17.3

client horror stories then let's get into it.

1:21.6

Photographers I'm gonna tell it to you straight today.

1:24.4

One thing a Lindsay and I have noticed over the years of coaching so many photographers is that many of us spend a

1:29.1

majority of our time stock behind a computer, editing, calling, delivering our photos, which can actually lead

1:35.3

us to not focusing on the overall growth of our business or giving our clients an out-of-this-world experience.

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