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Remember when we all thought a business needed a physical office to be legit?
My small consulting firm ran from my kitchen for 3 years, and we just landed our biggest client yet, a $15k project, over a video call. Has anyone else found clients care more about results than your address now?
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rowan4225mo ago
You say clients care more about results than your address, but that's a huge oversimplification. A real office signals stability and stops people from wondering if you're just some guy in pajamas. For a lot of bigger companies, that legitimacy is still a basic requirement before they even look at your work. Landing one client over video doesn't mean the old rules are dead, it just means you got lucky with that one.
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ryan9525mo ago
Guess my pajamas are more convincing than your suit.
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kelly.parker4mo ago
and honestly, that's kind of where I land on this too @rowan422. I feel like people miss the middle ground here - you know, the space between "suits are everything" and "pajamas are fine." I've seen freelancers lose a solid contract because the client walked into a coffee shop meeting and got weird vibes from the background noise. It's not about the pajamas being bad, it's about the client wondering if you're going to show up for a 9am call in them (and maybe you are, but they don't need to know that).
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