How to Spot Nightmare Clients Before They Ever Waste Your Time | Ep. #1539

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In episode #1539, we talk about how to spot nightmare clients before they ever waste your time. Taking on difficult clients might generate more revenue, but the costs they have on you and your team might start to outweigh the benefits. Tune in today to learn how to avoid taking clients like these on, and how to ditch the ones you have already if you can afford it. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: How To Spot Nightmare Clients Before They Ever Waste Your Time. [00:30] What do we mean by nightmare clients? [01:00] Deflecting nightmare clients early by setting expectations. [01:25] The danger of working with energy vampires and how to spot them. [01:59] Using lead forms to know whether clients will be the wrong fit. [02:56] If you can afford it, get rid of your current nightmare clients. [03:30] Being the bigger person and blaming yourself when getting rid of nightmare clients. [03:56] Knock-on effects of working with nightmare clients – a demotivated team. [05:10] That’s it for today! [05:11] To stay updated with events and learn more about our mastermind, go to the Marketing School site for more information or call us on 310-349-3785! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us: Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.
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0:50.5	Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel.
0:56.0	And today we're going to talk about how to spot nightmare clients before they ever waste your time.
1:02.0	So what do we mean by nightmare clients, Neil? I'm curious to get your
1:05.0	thoughts first. The clients, and there's different variations of it, but it could be clients that email you every single day, call you every single day,
1:13.9	tell you how to do your own job every single day,
1:17.0	clients who keep complaining every day,
1:18.6	clients who have unrealistic expectations,
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