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These days I rarely go on Twitter but when I do, I see some of the same posts I have seen since I joined Twitter 10 years ago. The trending posts relate to Client Red Flags and business owners sharing their frustrations of dealing with clients who lack what you would assume are basic manners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll be honest, I have posted on these topics myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Escort Pet Peeves \/ Client Red Flags are leads that enquire who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The correlation between escorting and the client red flags at Agency Atlantic Digital is funny as they are pretty much the same as the list above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A while back I got mentioned in a thread as being a WordPress guru. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thread was discussing websites and it was quite eye-opening to see the comments, misinformation, high expectations, and the total lack of respect for professional businesses offering professional services to the adult industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The escort industry and adult niche are really tricky for web development and SEO. Many platforms don’t allow adult services or the promotion of adult services<\/strong>. Escort & Adult can make working within it a bit of a minefield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I was able to ascertain from the Twitter thread that a website development company had designed a site for a lady a few years prior and she was wanting some updates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The web developer had quoted an hourly rate for the updates, provided a time frame and the work was to proceed… until the web developer changed their mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The account that posted the tweets slandered the web developer calling them unprofessional and recommending everyone stays clear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately with Atlantic being tagged into the Twitter thread the lady contacted us with a list of updates and wanted us to start right away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Website updates are charged by the hour. We can never know what we are going to get when working on someone else’s build. We can’t give a quote but we aim to give a ballpark estimate that is close. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Before I touch an existing website I also need to do checks to make sure that Atlantic won’t end up with legal issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I need to see how a website is built so that I can give a ballpark cost for updates that are charged at an hourly fee and also a timeline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If a job is going to take a 6hrs I also need to find 6hrs in my already full & busy schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately being sued because doing unauthorised work on a website is a reality<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Professional Developers have contacts and Terms and Conditions and I had found that this website was using a custom theme with the web developer’s name in the code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some website development companies allow others to make updates, some don’t and without knowing what\/ who I was dealing I then had to give the lady 2 options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Approval for me to work on the site from the former web developer could have been achieved simply with one email. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Rather than thank me for taking the time to review her situation and provide her with some solutions; I got a barrage of emails, many of which made very little sense but the majority were disrespectful to me and slanderous to her previous web developer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I politely declined to work with this person and by doing so I received abusive emails, being told I am a scammer because Atlantic charges $2000aud for a custom website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The woman also got onto social media and slandered me and my business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I started my Saturday offering free assistance to someone and instead of receiving a thank you, I receive a stack of abuse and there was no reason for it. Manners cost nothing!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have since spoken to this woman’s former web developer & they are lovely! And approval would have been given had they been asked…<\/p>\n\n\n\n