Remember when we all thought a business needed a physical office to be legit?

My small consulting firm ran from my kitchen for 3 years, and we just landed our biggest client yet, a $15k project, over a video call. Has anyone else found clients care more about results than your address now?

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rowan4221mo ago

You say clients care more about results than your address, but that's a huge oversimplification. A real office signals stability and stops people from wondering if you're just some guy in pajamas. For a lot of bigger companies, that legitimacy is still a basic requirement before they even look at your work. Landing one client over video doesn't mean the old rules are dead, it just means you got lucky with that one.

ryan9521mo ago

Guess my pajamas are more convincing than your suit.

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kelly.parker7d ago

and honestly, that's kind of where I land on this too @rowan422. I feel like people miss the middle ground here - you know, the space between "suits are everything" and "pajamas are fine." I've seen freelancers lose a solid contract because the client walked into a coffee shop meeting and got weird vibes from the background noise. It's not about the pajamas being bad, it's about the client wondering if you're going to show up for a 9am call in them (and maybe you are, but they don't need to know that).