Our Favorite Ridiculous Client Requests

OK, none of OUR clients would ever say anything like this, but we saw this on a B-to-B LinkedIn marketing group and just had to share:

“I don’t want to focus on one thing, I want to focus on everything.’

‘We did a video for a client in their offices. When they saw the rough cut, they loved the video but wanted to know if we could ‘tidy up the office a bit’ because they thought it looked messy and disorganized.’

‘I want this ad to be more pretty; can’t you make it more pretty?’ (argh)

“I told you I wanted it to sound like the Beach Boys, but I don’t want to pay the royalties. [referring to a sound track behind a radio ad]. This doesn’t sound like them at all. Why don’t you just get the Beach Boys to do it live?”

‘Once had a client (a retired English teacher, no less!) suggest that it wasn’t her typos that added three extra Rs to a word, but that the printer had injected them into her document. Of course, she would also copy her text documents to a Zip disk (remember those?) and then delete her local copy and courier the Zip to us, asking for it back when we were done with it so she could make changes to it.’

‘I had one client who, when presented with an invoice for $500 for a logo, said, “But didn’t you just make that up in your head?”