im a one man band as well and in a very heavily saturated market (denver) and i have no troubles, part of it is being creative, work smarter not harder. Another is get into a niche market and take it over. but dont wait for the jobs to be advertised, let them know u before hand. and the golden rule of business! always make u look bigger then u really r!
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:18:41 +1000 >Ok then, lets hear some of the things that a single-person developer >working his heart out already to pay the bills can do to increase the >market for CF developers, without giving all those opportunities to >the other 136 people who responded to the same job. > >One that springs to mind is that we could stop developing and go >without income for a while to start sales activity, to get companies >to take on ColdFusion as their server of choice. I accept that. It's >pretty hard to be paying the bills as well as doing sales, when you're >basically a contractor, but I can see that SOMEONE has to do some >selling, and in a one person business, there's no doubt who that is. > >What else? > >Cheers >Mike Kear >Windsor, NSW, Australia >AFP Webworks >http://afpwebworks.com >.com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=40 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:182124 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
