Portrait Artist Forum - Client as Art Rep?

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Originally Posted by Brenda Ellis

...My clients refer me by word-of-mouth for free because the people they are referring are their friends, and they want to give a good tip to them. I think it's rather gauche of him to want to make money off of what he tells his friends.

Risk...reward...risk.....reward. Sounds like a bit of risk and no guarantee of any reward.

Yeah Brenda, i agree it's kinda crude of him to do that.
In my situation, i find the Chinese saying "Rice feeds a hundred different people" - meaning that there are really so many types of people.
Having said that, It's helpful to handling people like him by being cautious, as every opportunity i have take with them may mean failure - and worse more problems than i can handle...but the other side of the equation meant having me a step towards success despite the mercenaries.

Here i leave another saying from an ancient writing written by an philosopher from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Of course, i don't agree giving one-thirds of our fortune to the people in our discussion, but i found some truths in its philosophy. Of course since this is what i read, I'm open to criticisms to this...

"When you have a stroke of good fortune, surrender one-third of your portion for the enjoyment of others. This is the law for making one's way through the world most comfortably" -- The Vegetable Root Discourses.