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Dealing with the wife in a family business...They handle all the lawn care for my business partner and my residence, the Husband is a hard worker, stand up guy and would give you the shirt off his own back.
So I decided to help them out with a trailer wrap as they said they were in the market for wrapping their 7' x 16' enclosed trailer, and waived the art charge as I figured it would be simple. WRONG
Any how.
Original Trailer done with calendered, it looks horrendous in person.
They then proceed to complain about my pricing for the wrap, that they could not afford it etc. I figured up how many impressions at the rate I was charging for this trailer wrap (basically giving it away) they'd only need new jobs to cover the entire expense. Which honestly my area lawn care is a great market and very lucrative for many many companies.
First design
(it won't load sadly)
Too expensive, go to lettering Just like our last trailer but make it more legible.... Hated even doing this one but trying to "do what customer wants"
2nd design
Then some how customer has " the specific art work in a AI/EPS file" So we set that up. Their logo makes it hard to really come up with anything than a boring design such as this. I felt ok with this Its boring but FAR nicer than their original design.
3rd design
Then she wanted some other changes making the text smaller. I started to send an email about how I suggest against modifying the design as the text is really legible and what she is seeing is how the trailer will look about 15-20 ft away. And that now day's most people search businesses via google, and the name / services would stick longer than her phone number. I went to back up that statement by searching key words for the area and they rank REALLY high. But instead I figured I'd give her want she wants as it seems I can't convince this woman of anything. Ready to just finish this job collect the cash and never see her again. Its funny somewhat as I generally never start a job without a design charge, or deposit for anything larger than $150. Never did I think this particular job would be such a headache.
End result : I wish they had a different logo So I could move things around some but at this point I'm not really putting much effort into making it look nice as every attempt to make it more visually appealing she has just shot down with some stupid reason. I tried at the start of all this to remove her tree's and recreate her logo, but yea she shot that down real fast.
If only all my customers were like some of my repeat clients. I currently maintain 3 Caymans and soon to have 2 more. Charged almost 4 grand for each wrap and about $10 a sq ft for repairs. I just send them the bill and they don't question it.
So I decided to help them out with a trailer wrap as they said they were in the market for wrapping their 7' x 16' enclosed trailer, and waived the art charge as I figured it would be simple. WRONG
Any how.
Original Trailer done with calendered, it looks horrendous in person.
They then proceed to complain about my pricing for the wrap, that they could not afford it etc. I figured up how many impressions at the rate I was charging for this trailer wrap (basically giving it away) they'd only need new jobs to cover the entire expense. Which honestly my area lawn care is a great market and very lucrative for many many companies.
First design
(it won't load sadly)
Too expensive, go to lettering Just like our last trailer but make it more legible.... Hated even doing this one but trying to "do what customer wants"
2nd design
Then some how customer has " the specific art work in a AI/EPS file" So we set that up. Their logo makes it hard to really come up with anything than a boring design such as this. I felt ok with this Its boring but FAR nicer than their original design.
3rd design
Then she wanted some other changes making the text smaller. I started to send an email about how I suggest against modifying the design as the text is really legible and what she is seeing is how the trailer will look about 15-20 ft away. And that now day's most people search businesses via google, and the name / services would stick longer than her phone number. I went to back up that statement by searching key words for the area and they rank REALLY high. But instead I figured I'd give her want she wants as it seems I can't convince this woman of anything. Ready to just finish this job collect the cash and never see her again. Its funny somewhat as I generally never start a job without a design charge, or deposit for anything larger than $150. Never did I think this particular job would be such a headache.
End result : I wish they had a different logo So I could move things around some but at this point I'm not really putting much effort into making it look nice as every attempt to make it more visually appealing she has just shot down with some stupid reason. I tried at the start of all this to remove her tree's and recreate her logo, but yea she shot that down real fast.
If only all my customers were like some of my repeat clients. I currently maintain 3 Caymans and soon to have 2 more. Charged almost 4 grand for each wrap and about $10 a sq ft for repairs. I just send them the bill and they don't question it.