I can hardly be moved to argue that good marketing and transparent justification is often essential.
But it's not worth the time to work with clients to whom programming has to be justified as a legitimate field of skilled, intellectual human endeavour from the ground up, arguing every step of the way. Programming is not just typing, and if you want it done more or less from scratch and done right, you have to pay serious money and give serious time. Dean Collins wrote: > Those 'inept' business types are your customers.... > > When I get a customer who doesn't understand why he should be paying me > a certain rate etc, I take the time to document the advantages, to show > and demonstrate the superior skills I deliver, I make sure that he > understand that I value his commitment and expenditure in hiring me for > a project instead of someone else. > > I don't call him 'inept' and blame the customer. > > Maybe you should start by looking at yourself and your own marketing > techniques first. -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
