Preach to the choir? We're singing from the same hymnal! My pitch is nearly verbatim.
And retirement sure sounds enticing... On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As I explain to my clients, the most important part of the engagement >> is explaining to them why they don't want to pay for custom software >> development. >> > > My patter: "Oh, you don't want to do this unless you don't have any > alternative. Custom software development is a difficult, expensive, > sometimes pinful process with little guarantee of results. If you want to > go ahead with this, it is like we are getting married, but our > communication and mutual understanding have to be *much* better than most > marriages I know." > > Part of the reason I retired. I loved doing it, and had great clients, but > so many prospects expected a site with eBay/Facebook/Amazon quality for > $50. (OK, I exaggerate a bit, but I don't have to preach to the choir.) > --------------------------------------- > > Back to the matter at hand, we are just looking for a "Central" space for > the content we are generating. Maybe with some click-through ad revenue. > Perhaps a site where we just embed Instagram/Facebook/whatever content and > let it go at that.... > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4vdpdkvracpuhuujny86e8olt4elzeenst2jtgrrh_...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
