Client Horror Stories: The Nut Job

I would never have believed it, but your nut job out kookoos my nut job client. Not by much, but definitely out kookoos. Mine believed that my developer was on a narcissistic rage and intentionally trying to sabotage her website. Never mind that evidence showed other people had entered the site and REMOVED code. Nope, it was my developer. She stalked me daily. But never tried to say she knew more than I, or my team, did. Although I would get emails from her – forwarded emails from MarketingProfs, SearchEngineLand, etc. I did ask her one time if she thought I needed additional education – considering that I’d been online since 1995, love SEO, owned an agency that has a team that includes SEO, designer, developers, etc. She stopped sending the emails. I agree wholeheartedly – DO NOT DO FAVORS! I just did it in the hopes of being introduced to two local businesses interested ...

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