April 29th, 2007 09:25pm
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We met with a potential client to discuss upgrading their website. After sending the CFO a proposal with estimated costs, we didn’t hear back from her for a couple of weeks, so I emailed her to follow up.
She responded that our proposal was much too high for them. Steve, who has been doing this a lot longer than me, has developed a sixth sense about whether there is any real …
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April 22nd, 2007 10:46pm
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About a month ago, a client called up with a DVD project that they needed done in a red-hot hurry. We had a flurry of phone calls with them, then we prepared an estimate with the expectation that they would be sending us the materials so we could immediately get started.
About a week passed and we didn’t hear from them. We called to see if the DVD concept had …
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April 15th, 2007 09:33pm
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I have a lot of compassion for the difficulty my teenage daughter has making a decision – I can get overwhelmed choosing a color of lipstick at Long’s – so it’s no wonder that when she has to make a decision that involves friends, money, and God, it’s not going to be easy.
The specific issue at hand is whether she should go on a youth mission trip to Hawaii – …
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April 8th, 2007 05:25pm
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I remember my reaction when it became apparent that business development, or put in more practical terms, cold-calling, was going to be my responsibility because Steve was too busy doing the work to also do the outreach. It was something along the lines of “You must be joking!” But as I’ve written about in my other blogs, it’s a part of the job that I’ve actually begun to embrace.
So …
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April 1st, 2007 10:08pm
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“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” But in my case I would expand on that phrase a bit: “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned or ignored following a new business meeting.”
The story starts as I was making my way through my cold calling list and I got a call back from a voice mail message that I had left just minutes earlier. It was a high …
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