Chapter 15. Showtime Showing your Client

Okay, technically Showtime isn't a movie title, TV show, or song. It's not a band either. It's a TV network, but this is the last chapter, so I figured I'd slip one past the goalie, right? So riddle me this, Batman: What makes "Showing Your Client" different from "How to Show Your Work"? They're actually the exact same chapter, but I came up about 36 pages short on the promised page count for this book, and rather than anger my publisher, I just ran the same chapter twice with a different intro. Now, does that sound like something I would do? Okay, let me rephrase that. Did I do that? No. Actually, the "How to Show Your Work" chapter was about how to display your work like a pro. The finished product. Your portfolio. This chapter is about how to show your client what you've done for them in a professional formatwhether it be in your office, via email, or on the Webbefore it becomes your finished, billable work. Now, I know what you're thinking: "Scott, that makes sense. But this very sensible thing appears within a chapter intro at the very back of the book, mind you. What gives?" You know, there comes a point in every man's life when he has to shed his sophomoric ways, strip away the hyperbole, and get down to the essence of what he came here to do. Part of it is that I'm just tired. I spent a whole day stitchin' panos, and when I was working on the barfnoor, I couldn't get it to align properly with the fleepinflopper, so I went under the Slapumgoogoogonk menu, launched Baabaaleepdonk, and by then I was so tired I just went under the File menu and saved it. See, when it comes down to it, that's what it's really all about.