Very early in my career, I found working with local clients can be vastly improved by having a detailed scope of work, milestones, expectations, and budget. Nev

Very early in my career, I found working with local clients can be vastly improved by having a detailed scope of work, milestones, expectations, and budget. Never enough detail. I found being local to clients creates a relationship very different from distant clients, and anything you can do to build trust, transparency, etc. ahead of the work, the better. The more detailed my scope of work, the less scope creep I had.