Fashion and Facebook...eeh

Watching Ftv is always amusing. They dish out the hip and avant garde in fashion. Its doubly interesting to see same patters and styles being donned by people in parties and later in the neighbourhood. Its an anticipated progression of fashion into society. It starts from the designers who present their designs on ramps to be copied by tailors in masses.
I sometimes wonder why this trend has not taken off on web portals. Web portals like Facebook which claims to have 800 million active users does not seem to be accomplishing any trend in fashion of web portals. Facebook is a web portal that has features added every fortnight with no design for the chic and swanky. It would be fun to see facebook giving out fashionable templates which I can don on my page and brag - A 'Versace Page' perhaps and I may pay facebook for the template and for increasing my onlne social status and more importantly for letting the Punjabi in me feel blissful with social accolade. 

Sue your Clients!!

There are two kinds of clients –

- Clients who pay

- Clients who do not pay

We have through myriad experiences learnt to deal with both. In my opinion, clients who pay are irksome when compared to clients who do not pay. Surprised, are you!! Well, this is how it goes.

When you approach a client (or a client approaches you), he expects that you would create everything for him – Web strategy to graphics to development. However, when you get talking and enumerate price for doing everything, he suddenly flinches and wants to trim the scope of work on paper (subconsciously, he still knows that he has to get all of it accomplished from YOU).

Then it comes to collecting advance which he happily gives away. You slog and slog till the deliverable date. Now, the client who is serious about paying will ignore your slogging and gesture to say that he is not satisfied. Well, he is paying and you better sharpen your skills and improve your work. You slog again to satisfy him. You keep slogging till he is satisfied and pays you!!

Now lets peek into the scenario where the client does not pay. He has no intention of paying and would say that I do not like your work and will not pay for it. Easy, he is out of door and you are back in office. No more slogging for him. You know he would not pay and that is the termination of the story. Well, you can sue him if you want to but you are still a jubilant man since work with this client is over and you can spend your time transacting with another client.