What does everyone hate more, a client with bad communication or a client who overcommunicates? I have a client who wants to meet every day, sometimes twice a day, and he rambles on and on. If I can end the Zoom call in an hour, I'm lucky. Then he gets pissy when he gets the invoice and compares what I'm charging to my output. I told him I'm charging him for the calls. He said I should be working/writing during those meetings. I'm supposed to be active in the meeting while writing? No

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Finish your contract and move on. This client just seems to be the cheap sort who expects the moon at a penny and wants you to acknowledge how amazing their ideas are.

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I get annoyed when clients don't respond but the ones who want to meet each day drive me nuts. Like chill out dude and let me work.

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Remind him that you get paid for your time regardless of whether you’re working on writing content or sitting on Zoom. Meetings require your full attention, as does creating content. You can’t do both at once competently. Nobody can.

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