When you have an inexperienced senior and junior client and have to breakdown and explain every minute detail of a shoot, even though you already have. Just want to send them advertising 4 dummies

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And you’re a senior account manager??

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You’re in the wrong line of work. You’re managing the account. Maybe managing for dummies is in order

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Educating your client can build long term trust and is trivial after some experience. If you want to be any good at marketing a product to consumers you should get good at explaining things concisely

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Without bad clients we wouldn’t need you

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Thats part of our job 😒

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Why the hate? The OP can do his/her job and gripe.

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