How To Communicate With Writing Clients

How To Communicate With Writing Clients
I enjoy talking with clients, but the other day I realized that some writers are uncomfortable with client conversations, especially initial meetings.
Here are some tips for conducting a successful client meeting with confidence.

Start with Confidence

Successful client communication begins with confidence in your skills as a writer. The rest is process.

As a writer, you know that feeling of being in the zone. Everything else falls away. You don't hear your family watching TV. You don't hear street noise. Or, the two-stroke engine buzzing away in the neighbor's yard. You've done the research, created the outline, and know where you are in the process. You are in it and the writing flows.

It doesn't matter if you are writing about a plumbing business or well into Act II of a ghostwritten thriller. You know your writing strengths and get on with the task.

Remember that feeling when you talk to prospective clients. You know you can write, bring your client along in conversation. This confidence in your professional skills is the basis for great client conversations.

I received an email message the other day with a headline that read something like “How to make it through the dreaded client meeting.” My response–What! Just let me talk to them. It was the prompt for this article. There must be writers who are uncomfortable with client conversation.

If you are writing for the web, you know how well natural language works. Use it in your client conversations.

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