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The Questions You Need to Ask Every Client

3 min • 30 mars 2022

If you want to dodge problem clients in your career, asking the right questions before the project starts goes a very very long way toward helping with that.

And to download my full client questionnaire, you can go here: bit.ly/gameaudioquestions

Send me a message:

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