You're at odds with clients on VR content. How do you steer towards a creative resolution?

In my experience, Start by comprehensively understanding your client's objectives for their VR content. Actively listen to their concerns and expectations to ensure you grasp the project's goals. This foundational knowledge is critical for guiding future discussions and creative choices. By empathizing with their vision, you can propose solutions that align with their goals while upholding your creative standards. This approach fosters trust and sets the stage for a successful collaboration.

- Listen carefully while your client talks, they often drop hints of what they really want when they repeat their needs a couple times. - Remind the client you’re on their side and here to serve their needs by staying within scope. - Explore alternatives even if they don’t seem useful, you never know when it’ll help, maybe even in v2 or another project.

Listen to what your clients say! 90% of the time your conversations are your SOW, brief, and a route to client satisfaction. Put forth your solutions creatively reminding the client that you are on their side and are trying to solve their problems, learn to invite and collaborate on exploring more solutions for the said problem.

Could you try to fit your creative idea into the existing frame provided by your customer? Ensure you stay on track with the key objectives of the VR project, but be proactive and show alternative paths and ideas beyond the baseline. Show what you'd like to follow within the boundaries set. Impressing with engagement and confidence may win you approval for something that might have yet to be initially considered, as long as it aligns with the project's key objectives. A proactive attitude can also be appreciated as caring for customers and their business objectives.

Do not just talk, SHOW what you talk! Showcase a use case, a demo, or a piece of content that you created. Always take your visual prototypes to steer the conversation forward and to receive tangible outcomes to arrive at a mutually agreeable solution.