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Early last week Brian Provost of Scoreboard Media Group posted The First Question You Should Ask Your SEO Consultant. That question according to Brian is “If you can rank a site in lucrative markets, why would you do it for clients instead of for yourself?” It’s an interesting question and one deserving discussion.

As any type of company or consultant, the WRONG clients can destroy your success. It is often very tempting to keep clients, since the money seems nice, but when you drill down to the nitty gritty, they are often not very profitable at best, and a complete resource drain that can damage your pocket book and your quality of life at worst.

1) Smart Use of Flickr # 273 Core 77 Architecture for Humanity held its logo design competition on Flickr and received entries from across the globe. This is a really smart use of Flickr, but an even smarter non-profit using social media to get international graphic design consultation for free.

AdWords users will begin to get a glimpse of the 'man behind the curtain' as they make a trio of general Quality Score ratings available, based on the keywords clients pick for those campaigns.

The SEO has a right to receive payment from the client for the entire amount contracted. A contract is a contract is a contract. Don't try to weasel out of it. The SEO has a right not to have to justify to the client payment due in terms of actual time spent on account unless payment is based on an hourly fee. Package priced contract fees are due regardless of time spent provided work outlined in the contract is performed.

I'm currently working on a video chat app using Flash Media Server and Flex. This will be version 2 of my Ameegos.com excercise and this time I want to add real scalability to the app.

I've always heard horror stories of small business owners and clients who don't pay their bills.

Over at the SoloSEO blog, there's a good post discussing five things you can do to find new SEO clients. The list features...