Getting started, it's easy to just grab any client, any work, to get money coming in. Took me a while (and a lot of wasted energy) to see what a bad idea that is.
You know, that client who pays decent but is a nightmare? Always pushing scope, just exhausting to deal with? They aren't actually making you money when you factor everything in. The real cost is the better clients you could be working with, or the time you could be spending building your actual business.
The biggest breakthrough for me was figuring out that turning down bad money is maybe the smartest move you can make. You have to protect your focus.
The hardest lesson I've learned: Not all revenue is good revenue.
byu/UrAhriRose inEntrepreneur
Posted by UrAhriRose
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I completely agree with you. The time you spend to finish off the deliverables of a bad client, you can invest that in product growth or acquisition of a new client instead. And yes you can turn down unreasonable asks for sure.