One of the most common ways for a new web designer to get clients is to build web pages for friends and family. And many designers become friends with their clients, even if they first met in a business context. Is it possible to become friends with clients or stay friends with someone once they are your client? Does either relationship suffer? Find out some of the benefits and pitfalls to being friends with your clients and making clients of your friends. This article: Are You Friends with Your Clients? will help you navigate these treacherous waters.

Working With Friends Can Help Your Design Business

• Are You Friends With Your Clients?
• What do you think of having friends as clients and clients as friends?
• Build Your Reputation by Designing for Friends
• Work with Friends to Start Your Business
• Most People Start By Designing Sites for Friends

Are you friends with your clients? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, January 14th, 2011 at 02:47:27.

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