another bid lost…what’s wrong

[Peter Ralph]

I would have left out all the penalty/punishment clauses. They are unnecessary and threaten an adversarial relationship, rather than a collaborative one. Did you suggest that the product could be produced at half the price if all the talent was bought to the same location?

Did you show them samples of the type of production they can get at different price points? There is place for cheap video the same as cheap cars. Not all companies looking for cheap video are fools or grinders.

Last year Seth Godin gave his “all marketers are liars” talk to a bunch of Google employees. A video was made and posted online I doubt they paid anything for it – not that the camerawork was so bad but I am sure any pro videographer would have used 2 cams or added the slides in post:

https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6909078385965257294

[Greg Ball]

I think there’s danger with a client who “thinks” they know video because they were an exec in a production company. There was no chance to get everyone to one location, as they wanted everyone shot intheir actual environment. So no way to lower the price.

They didn’t need samples, they had a script. As a matter of fact, their first request included that they would just rent our Betacam, mic, and lights and shoot it themselves.

I’m pretty pleased that they went elsewhere. This had bad client written all over it.

[Bruce Bennett]

I find this thread very interesting and somewhat disturbing. I have a few thoughts/opinions that I would like to share. I don

[Steve Wargo]

Tim

DO NOT tell my clients! Please.

Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona

It’s a dry heat!

[Steve Wargo]

Can we have a contest on the 8 asterisks? I would put my answer here but I don’t know if “assholes” is inappropriate.

Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona

It’s a dry heat!