Clients and vendors, vendors and clients.
I’ve been on both sides numerous times.
When you’re working as a church, ministry, or non-profit organization, you often find yourself hiring vendors to get things done as you’re not big enough to afford a full-time staff to take care of multimedia. This is why many creative agencies and freelancers–design, IT, web, etc … get these types of clients. The same could be said for small businesses, too, as they cannot afford a full-time staff dedicated to websites, graphic design and so on.
There is often a tension between the two, as “the dance of clients and vendors” occurs.
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