Does loyalty count ?

[Newton]

Lets put a hypothetical on the table .. imagine you have been contacted by a new client who is just starting out, to fulfill a contract in a certain timeframe, and you have undertaken this project. Another client who lets again say hypothetically is a huge affiliate, who needs a project undertaken and completed in the same timeframe, who has promised you future work and in return for doing this work will give you exactly double what your other client has offered. Which one would you accept if there was absolutely no way you could do both and have already taken on client A ?

[NickPapageorgio]

Originally Posted by Newton

Lets put a hypothetical on the table .. imagine you have been contacted by a new client who is just starting out, to fulfill a contract in a certain timeframe, and you have undertaken this project. Another client who lets again say hypothetically is a huge affiliate, who needs a project undertaken and completed in the same timeframe, who has promised you future work and in return for doing this work will give you exactly double what your other client has offered. Which one would you accept if there was absolutely no way you could do both and have already taken on client A ?

Finish client A's work and if things work out at some point later on with client B, fine. Loyalty has nothing to do with fullfilling ones commitments.

[MorganGrayson]

I'd fulfill the committment that I'd made. I may weep for the other, but I've been promised "future work," too. I didn't hold my breath and it's a good thing I didn't, because the "future work" didn't show up and never will. That "big affiliate" was once starting out, too, and who knows where this one will go?

Slide the other project to a friend who knows what the phrase "finder's fee" means.

Breaking committments when you get a "better offer" is a great way to get yourself blacklisted from everybody.

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Newton

Lets put a hypothetical on the table .. imagine you have been contacted by a new client who is just starting out, to fulfill a contract in a certain timeframe, and you have undertaken this project. Another client who lets again say hypothetically is a huge affiliate, who needs a project undertaken and completed in the same timeframe, who has promised you future work and in return for doing this work will give you exactly double what your other client has offered. Which one would you accept if there was absolutely no way you could do both and have already taken on client A ?

I would have to stay with client A because I said I would do their project.

However, I would first attempt to find someone to farm a bit of it out to so that I could do both projects at the same time.

But, failing that I would have to tell client B "I would love to take it on but unfortunately I don't have time in my schedule right now...yadda yadda etc etc"