But, he added, his clients are starting to talk about socking away more money.

I've been out of rotation for days now, and my clients were starting to miss me.

"And clients are starting to look at the smaller agencies to get fresh thinking."

For example, since being under stress the client may have started to avoid business or social situations.

Any decorator asked to help design a room for a client would start by asking certain obvious questions.

With 46,000 clients since Smartbot.net started operations in September, the service is a hit.

It was always a bad sign when the client started using his own medicine.

Some of them backed out, and clients started going crazy.

"The minute we announced our formation, prospective clients started calling."

In one case, a client started screaming about how he was going to go kill his partner.