On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Kevin Saenz">
>
> > Has anyone out there been receiving phone calls from external groups
> > asking for assistance on your knowledge? (saying "I saw some of your posts
> > on SLUG can you help me?") If you have, what do you do especially if you
> > are self employed?
>
> Give them your rates? :-)
>
> [ This has happened to me a number of times in the past, sometimes just
> being bothersome ("but your posts on SLUG are free!"), sometimes kicking off
> a good business relationship. For the record though, I'm not doing private
> consulting at the moment. :-) ]
Well I thought that yeah charging for the consulting would be obviously
the go. In my opinion those that say "but you post to slug for free" and
won't pay are going to be the difficult ones to extract money out of in
the end.
They should be made to understand you answer some questions on SLUG when
you feel like it and there's no warranty implied. If they want faster
service without having to work things out from the confusion of multiple
replies from people with varying expertise then they can pay for it. Same
deal getting the car fixed. You can buy all the tools, learn all the stuff
and do it yourself if you want. For that matter it's like any service
industry I guess.
I had hoped this sort of discussion would appear on the linux vendors
mailing list. See http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/vendors for info.
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