Amen to that, sister! Providing a hosting service that has a fixed cost and requires no effort is one thing, but spending additional time on a non-paying client is quite another. I have been down that road and it sucks. Right now everyone is squeezing blood out of turnips, it seems.
One rule I have for now - no fixed scope projects. In this economy, that is very likely to lead to death by a thousand scope creeps, lol. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Erika wrote: > > Cam - cool. Just making sure ;) > > And another few thoughts. > > I don't know about the rest of you that run your own small business (not > those that do it on the side, I mean those that work 100% for yourself) ... > but I know times are hard right now for a lot of people. And I can tell you > this: I'd much rather work for clients that pay on time than ones that > don't > no matter how much "good will" you are willing to spread. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288182 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
