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I have worked with overseas clients before but it is very hard. For me the hardest part is to build a rapport with somebody who lives in another culture without face to face meet up. When there is urgent job to be completed, we can push things through but it is pretty hard to sustain the interest afterwards.

Read the last sentence. I think zuzupetals was being sarcastic...

Love this. I think I'll slip those in my future quotations...

I think this nails it. You need to frame your business/ value proposition in a compelling way. This is no easy task. That is why a lot of people choose to work for others so that they don't have to think about this. For example, if you can frame your value proposition as "the artist with the preferred visual style of certain demographics", then you really don't have to worry about someone else copying little bits of your techniques. But then, I myself is struggling with this dilemma as much as the next person...

Hi, These are not even my stuff but I just like to share where you can get some native Lightwave models. http://forums.newtek.com/showthread.php?129692-15-cars-project The models are available in Dosch shop. To me, despite being a phenomenal software, my biggest problem in using Lightwave for archvis is having to convert all those 3ds max models for the library. Please tell if this is in any way against the forum policy. Thanks BTW, I was with the old forum but this is my second post in this new forum.

I suppose it all comes down to individual's business strategy. For example, Apple hardly gives any of its technology away but Pixar routinely releases their technology to the community. You can do business by keeping everything secret and proprietary (think of coca-cola, oracle). You can also do business based on sharing of information - eg. Google shares a lot of information gathered from adwords even if you are not a paying customer. It is your choice but you cannot tell other people what to do. That's my two cents.