The Client Workflow System That Keeps Me Sane (and Keeps Clients Coming Back)

The Client Workflow System That Keeps Me Sane (and Keeps Clients Coming Back)

The email came in at 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. “Hey, just checking in on the photos from last week’s shoot, any idea when those will be ready?” I had delivered them three days earlier. The client never got the notification, never saw the gallery link, and had been quietly stewing for 72 hours while I had no idea anything was wrong. That was the moment I stopped treating my client workflow as an afterthought and started treating it like a product I was selling.