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Can You Deliver?

  • Posted by Paul
  • Categories Business School
  • Date March 21, 2011
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I tend to hire a lot of freelancers. When I find a good one I will often stick with them for a long time but of course they sometimes get too busy, take a holiday or move on. One recurring theme I find in new hires is that to start with they are super keen and really want to impress but as with many one-man-bands they spend a lot of effort getting clients but then struggle to deliver.

My thought for today is to think about what you promise to do and if you make a promise then do everything in your power to deliver on it.

I’ve made this mistake myself by the way, which is why I’m careful what I take on nowadays.

I hired a team to plan and redesign an old site of mine on Friday. They put in their bid and we chatted on the phone for a while and then I awarded the project. I was immediately sent a message saying:

‘We will get a few ideas over to you later today.’

The ideas never came. I don’t know why and there was no message to explain. So my first experience with them is negative. Now, if they had said something like they would get back to me in two business days then that is what I would have expected but they didn’t…my expectations were for last week.

Paul Browning

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Paul left the police force in the UK in June 2000. He started his first online business in 2002 selling IT training courses.

Since then he has created several other online businesses including IT certification training websites and small business marketing support. Paul has also written over 15 Amazon best selling books.

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    2 Comments

  1. Andra
    April 9, 2012

    Yeah…you have to be very careful. As you said, working with freelancers can be difficult sometimes. This kind of negative things have happened to me too.

  2. Samuel
    May 9, 2012

    Hey, great article! You are very good at this. I like your points I like also like the fact that you are very sincere. Well done!

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