I Need Urgent Assistance

This is an urgent question; I have a meeting with client tomorrow (March 13).

We are in the beginning stages of [B][I](finally)[/I][/B] completely redesigning a website I created and have hosted and maintained for more than a decade.

The website is for a small, independent, boutique-type store selling a specific product. The website has always been only about the store, its owners (who are also well-known it the community), events they host, the products they sell, and special services they offer.

We’ve [B][I]never[/I][/B] had any ads on the website for other groups/businesses.

The client just notified me that she wants to add an advertisement [I][B]at the top of her website[/B][/I] for some organization, in exchange for the client getting a free membership in that organization. [B][COLOR=”Red”][B]UPDATE[/B][/COLOR][/B]: I’ve just learned membership into this organization is [B][I]only $150[/I][/B]! [B][I]Who[/I][/B] would sell [B][I]one year’s worth of advertisement space at the top of their website for only $150[/I][/B]. I hate to say it, but while my client is a [I]really[/I] good person, she is [B]batty[/B] and has [B][I]no[/I][/B] idea what she’s doing. Honestly, sometimes I don’t know how she has enough sense to keep her business going – but she has.

First of all, we are redoing the website because it is [B][I]far too crowded[/I][/B] on the front. How on earth are we going to make room for another agency’s ad?

Secondly, and the reason I am writing, do I charge her extra to put someone else’s code in our site and on our front page?

I do my client’s website and products, not that of another company. I don’t work for that other organization.

Client is getting free membership, other company is getting ad space – what am I getting, and I am the one doing all the work?

As you can see, I am [B]VERY MUCH[/B] against putting an ad on this website.

What do you think? I need advice immediately. I want your full and honest opinion. Am I wrong for wanting to keep the ad out? Should I charge extra, since putting in someone else’s ad is [B]not[/B] in the fee I have quoted?

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