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About first client

Greetings everyone:

Just passing by to talk about my first client interaction. It was not as expected, but quite a learning experience.

First of all, I jumped right into working without talking about price (first error) and then, i solved a big problem for my client: his webpage had a lot of trouble, and he is an AI enthuciast and tryed to fix it himself. I did an excelent job and manage to get score 100 on SEO that was his first issue. Also was built on wordpress and had a lot of pluggins and the webpage was not responsive. In the way i found that he had a italian hacker (at least the IP said so) and belive it or not, the hacker made a admin acount and noone noticed for a whole year. Also he added malicious malware on the base. I rebuild the website. It took me about 5 days of work and charged about 600 bucks for all.

I noticed he had payed a chatbot, a good one chilean startup and payed 200 bucks for it monthly. The website sold almost 0 on the last 3 months. He also hired a digital marketing agency for 1000 bucks for managing google ads and meta ads. I also noticed they were doing a horrible job.

I proposed him charging him half of the price they were charging to make an Agentic solution for it, a good one. Also on the way i made my own chatbot using LangGraph and Gemini, even offered product with a picture or audio! Im proud of it.

The thing is even thou i demostrated my skills with AI and my speed, he offered me crums: only a comition payed when the website started selling (almost 100% of the sales are non web) and ofered me very very little money for % of sales. He sent me the offer today (17 days since i started working with him).

I spoke with him and he was sure it was a good offer and also asured me there were no other way. They had no intentions on making me an AI Partner.

I just sent him a backoffer refusing the sales % and offering good AI products that are still a win win for both of us. I feel kinda relieved because at some point i considered the offer. I spoke with my good pal Claude and review everything in detail and made a detailed auditory about the digital marketing agency.

They were doing a HORRIBLE job.

Well this taught me a lot, and i also learnt how to make a chatbot and learnt how google ads work in order to make agentic solutions.

I don't see it as a loss, and i am very proud of my decision.

I am eager to meet a new client and start the right way (i started this course after having him as a client) I will make things the right way from no on and i will make myself an agent to get me good leads. The ones that are willing to do the right thing.

I hope everybody here is doing ok with their bussiness also. Glad to be here.

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