Suffer the little owners

Sometimes business owners succeed by accident.

Or maybe that is just by irritated reaction. You see, while outside of the business world I can be tolerant of the follies of others, within the business world I expect a certain degree of professionalism.

Some business owners seem to lack a lot of brainpower. If they have been in business for several years, they must know something - but regarding some of them - "You couldn't prove it by me."

Two of the stupidest attitudes that one encounters among business owners are: 1.) the owner that thinks that he is the expert on every matter, he has ever read or heard anything about and gets upset if a specialist does not do things the way he expects and 2) the one who thinks that a specialist can produce something that will please the owner without the owner taking the time to communicate his desires to the specialist.

PPPLLLLEEEAAASSSSEEE!!!!!!!!

However,

in the real world free-lancers have to try to pull the project along no matter how low the client's IQ may be.

Kristen Fischer wrote an article about dealing with a business owner who won't discuss his wants and then rejects your work. Although Kristin focuses primarily on the writer and graphic industry this article is useful for anyone who is a "creative" freelancer.