“Firing” a Podcast Production Client

Sometimes when you’re producing or editing a client’s podcast the relationship starts out really well — expectations are clear, preset boundaries are respected, both parties perform their pre-determined responsibilities in a timely manner, and things go smoothly.

But somewhere along the way your client may start demanding more from you — thrusting some of their own pre-determined responsibilities onto you, introducing new tasks and production that were never part of the agreement (known as Scope Creep), delivering audio to you last minute and expecting you to drop everything to produce and publish the episode immediately, or asking you to pick up the slack last minute because they neglected to plan ahead properly, etc.

I’ve had several relationships crumble in this manner and I’ve never been hesitant to end the relationship.

As a podcast producer/editor you have no obligation to indulge a clients poor planning, laziness, and disrespectful behavior at the expense of your time and sanity. ZERO OBLIGATION. Don’t do it. There are many other fish in the sea.

And if the client perceives you as a “bad” person for ending the relationship, so be it. If they’re not intelligent/aware enough to understand how egregiously they violated what they agreed to, then nothing you can say will get through to them. Just let them go.

Have you experienced this?

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