people

The following posts are hopefully related to "people" in some way.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 6:37am

Sell the Concept, Then Yourself

As I’m sitting here trying to decide exactly when I’ll pull the trigger over at MacHeist, I’m reflecting on a conversation I had last night with a local business owner.  Now I have very little experience in direct (face-to-face) sales, and the purpose of this meeting was to bring his restaurant’s website over to Snowdrop.  While I felt I had a strong sales pitch and a nice angle, I quickly realized selling Snowdrop wasn’t going to be the difficult part. In fact, the owner liked the idea of Snowdrop being a small startup in the area.

The difficulty, it would turn out, was convincing him that a website in itself would help his business. (more…)

Tags: Business, Marketing, Opportunity, people

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008, 10:04pm

Working Through a Delay

As a freelancer, sometimes you’ll have clients that don’t work on the same schedule as you. In fact, sometimes you’ll feel as if there is a 1-2 week time zone difference, which would be the only way to explain the long gaps in response to your emails. Yes, it can get very frustrating, especially if your own work timelines rely heavily on others getting back to you on time. However, here are two things you can do to help with project delays. (more…)

Tags: Business, Freelancing, people

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