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Your ability vs. client needs

Your ability vs. client needs

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Your ability vs. client needs

- Every creative company has strengths, weaknesses, and areas where you need to fill in the gaps for a project. Just as we determine the client's needs, it's just as important to make an honest assessment of what your company can and cannot do on your own to complete the project by the delivery deadline. When doing a self assessment, don't just consider the delivery deadline. Yeah, it's important to meet that delivery deadline, but it's just as important to deliver a quality product. Now, based on the working concept that you're going to present to the client, do you need to bring in outside resources to deliver a quality project by that client's deadline? Well, if the answer is yes, do those outside resources involve people, equipment, or maybe stock sources like music, graphics, and effects? Once you know the resources that you'll need, make sure you have you the most up to date rates for each resource. Never, ever, assume anything. Just because something is $100 today doesn't mean…

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