I didn't expect for anyone to post this yet. I'm going through old emails and working on some posts, I should have the first one up by this Monday or Tuesday.
now that the topic root has been snatched; i think you should serialize your findings and post each "lesson" along with your reflections on it in a separate article.
If you didn't start this I would have had to contact you personally, directly, to pick your brains on a few things.
One thing I want to know about is your methodology for contacting and landing corporate clients. Aside from the super Web 2.0 savvy dotcoms, Real World companies, specially conglomerates and large holdings have a distributed teams with sometimes overlapping responsibilities and I am finding it hard to navigate through their directories to discover which department could use my service (advertising) vs which department is responsible for cutting the checks. For every hour of development 4 hours go into sales calls and being on hold (on metered Skype for international calls; waiting has never been more fun at $0.25/minute, btw)
I'm open to talking about whatever people want to hear. I'm going to divulge as much as I can, which is most things assuming they don't amount to criticism that can be tied to any particular person. I'm not interested in playing the blame game.
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[ 29.7 ms ] story [ 1316 ms ] threadIf you didn't start this I would have had to contact you personally, directly, to pick your brains on a few things.
One thing I want to know about is your methodology for contacting and landing corporate clients. Aside from the super Web 2.0 savvy dotcoms, Real World companies, specially conglomerates and large holdings have a distributed teams with sometimes overlapping responsibilities and I am finding it hard to navigate through their directories to discover which department could use my service (advertising) vs which department is responsible for cutting the checks. For every hour of development 4 hours go into sales calls and being on hold (on metered Skype for international calls; waiting has never been more fun at $0.25/minute, btw)
Assuming you want to divulge this.