Ep. 3003 - Q&A: “How can I get clients to provide more accurate information?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this episode, we explore how service-based businesses can guide clients through providing accurate information. Learn how to reduce costly mistakes and protect your business!
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 0:48.9 | A lot of service-based businesses rely on clients providing accurate details, whether it's |
| 0:58.1 | measurements for custom clothing, that's what we're going to hear about today, specs for a project, |
| 1:02.8 | key business data, whatever the case may be. |
| 1:05.8 | So what happens when clients give incorrect or incomplete information? |
| 1:09.8 | Well, first of all, it can be frustrating. That's the first |
| 1:11.8 | thing that happens. But what do you do about the problem? How do you actually handle it? So today's |
| 1:15.7 | question comes from a custom clothing designer who struggles with remote clients sending inaccurate |
| 1:20.6 | measurements. And this leads to costly fit issues. It leads to customer dissatisfaction. It leads to problems |
| 1:26.7 | that she has to solve later. |
| 1:28.2 | So let's consider how she and anybody who's dealing with client provided details can improve |
| 1:33.5 | the accuracy, set better expectations, and just avoid wasted time and money. |
| 1:38.1 | Let's just try to be more efficient so we can run our businesses better and just have more |
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