Question about taking prospect or clients out to lunch

11 years 1 month ago #282627 by MYoung
What is your policy on who pays when you take out someone who might be a client vs existing client out to lunch to meet up to discuss upcoming work? Will you pay regardless if they are a client or not? Or do you go Dutch?


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11 years 1 month ago - 11 years 1 month ago #282661 by effron
If I ask someone to go to lunch, I pick up the tab. If its a potential customer, I pick up the tab. If its my wife, I pick up the tab....You see where I'm going, that's just me...... ;)

and save ALL receipts.

Why so serious?
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11 years 1 month ago #282663 by Darrell
If you ask them out you pay!!

You will not be judged as a photographer by the pictures you take, but by the pictures you show.
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11 years 1 month ago #282664 by Joves
:agree:
I am pretty much with the other two posts. And as Ernesto said keep the receipts they are a tax write off against the potential money you make from them as an expense.


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11 years 1 month ago #282740 by Kristy Blake

Darrell wrote: If you ask them out you pay!!



Same here :agree:


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