15 Types Of Difficult Clients And How To Handle Them Effectively

15 Types Of Difficult Clients And How To Handle Them Effectively

Everyone has that one client from hell.  The one who monopolizes your time, frustrates the entire staff, and makes unreasonable demands.  If you’ve got more than one, you probably spend 3 out of 4 weekends in office.  If we apply the Pareto principle (or 80:20 rule) to the agency-client relationship, 80% of an agency’s resources are utilized in managing 20% of its clients.

Two things are crucial here:

1.  If these difficult clients don’t generate majority of the revenue, you need to start diverting your resources to the ones who do.

2.  If the difficult ones happen to be your highest billing clients, here are a few useful tips to help you identify and manage them effectively.

Difficult Clients

Original Source:  Ciplex, Digital Synopsis

Miss QT started her career with Credit Suisse Investment Bank issuing Structured Products to Private Banks, and later joined UBS Private Bank where she spent the bulk of her career. She works at a Technology Hedge Fund that specializes in global technology investments. A graduate of Duke University, she holds two degrees from the School of Engineering, and double majored in Computer Science and Mathematics. She trades the Global Equities Market and conducts proprietary reesearch on Algorithmic Investing (from Quandl with over 10 million datasets to Multicharts) to improve investment decisions. During her free time, Miss QT plays Golf.