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Coming First Can be Easy

  • Posted by Paul
  • Categories Business School, Featured
  • Date February 13, 2011
  • Comments 7 comments

As a business owner who outsources almost everything I have a somewhat unique perspective on what it takes to be the one who is chosen for a project.
Much of the time you only need be the least worst of the bunch. You simply need to be the one who bothers to reply, who responds to the initial bid details or even does what they said they were going to do in the first place.
Take this week for example.
I have a $30k project going live to deliver some online lectures. One guy who I’ve used for some small jobs expressed an interest. I replied and then nothing from him for 10 days. When he does reply he asks if he can use my notes for the presentations! I could just do that myself.

I have about $5k to spend on a website redesign and the company I invited to help sent me a form to fill in detailing my request and preferences. Nothing back for two days and then after asking for a reply I still heard nothing back.

I have about $10k to spend on software development. The company I invited told me it would be two weeks work and I could only hire the programmer in blocks of five work days. Strange how they came to the amount of two weeks since they haven’t seen the initial code or requirements yet. They then changed their minds and said five days, still not having seen the code.

All these people and companies are either stupid, lazy or making too much money so they don’t need mine. But it does go to show how easy it is to stand out in a crowd of apathy. While people complain there is a recession on it is still easy to shine.

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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    7 Comments

  1. John Marshal
    February 22, 2011

    Really true , Once the Companies build up thier name and reputation , and start minting off too much money from big clients , they seem to not be interested in small clients like me and you..It feels disgusting when we get through this πŸ™

  2. Kriztina
    February 22, 2011

    Sad to see that you are facing such problem , but its not only you , everyone suffers from this , companies just rule thier book πŸ™

  3. Jay Decay
    February 22, 2011

    you spend a lot of money πŸ˜› he he just kidding πŸ˜€

    Really a nice issue pointed out by you..

  4. terras
    February 22, 2011

    Companies are seriously stupid , they dont understand that even small projects can contribute alot in their profits

  5. doraemon rocks
    February 22, 2011

    changing the duration for work completion is just common nowdays , as they get lots of task to do , and they lack time for it πŸ˜›

  6. Ilenne
    April 9, 2012

    I like you very much. You are so sincere. And you are doing a fantastic job! Congratulations!

  7. Carla
    May 9, 2012

    You haven’t spent too much money as I can see. At least this is my opinion. But if you think something is worth the money and if you think you can succeed, you can spend that money. Because the result will be satisfying.

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