help on clients asking for samples

hi

Get them to sign your terms & cons as officially you are starting to design for them, even if its concept ideas. I would tread very carefully also, if they can not see your potential from 25 logos either they are planning to disappear with your idea or the 25 logos where crap lol

I have made the mistake of supplying samples before and the client has run off! I now ask for a deposit up front - A client hasnt said no yet upon me requesting this.

I agree with Flair, get them to sign a contract and/or tell them that what they are asking for is paid design work.

Requesting a small fee up front is a good idea too and make sure all correspondence has copyright credit to yourself (you could even lay a watermark over each logo idea which will make it very difficult and pointless to remove).

Also, if you are creating logos from Illustrator and sending the ideas in pdf format, make sure the images are raster and NOT vector, otherwise it is very easy to resave back as an eps file. Putting a password lock on the pdf also helps.

thanks guys

appreciate it