[TriLUG] Off topic: Side work

[Tim Jowers]

My experience too.  El cheapo's out there.  One business book says you
should fire 20% of your customers. I believe it is more like 80% when doing
computer stuff for small companies and individuals.  The model which does
work is to hire a hisgh school geeks and charge $10/hr. Since the geeks are
90% clueless, they'll take hours!

Now, what you can do is try to upsell them. Maybe you could get in the
"backup" business or "hosting" business. You could make back your money over
a year.

The hugest ever insult is when a customer asks you to do something like that
or even to fix their computer after software from AOL or somewhere screws it
up and then turns around and pays $1000 for a computer from DELL when you
are selling the same specs for $500. That's when I decided "side work" is
not worth the hassle. People think because they talk to you on in person
they can scam you but somehow will blow money with a faceless company!

Tim


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Christopher Blackmon
<ckblackm at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Pfft... I'm voting for Paris Hilton!
>
> http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/06ae3d8563
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> Christopher
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:18:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Off topic: Side work
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> I really wasn't intending that to be a political reference.  Our media
> is way out of control when any "Joe" + <profession> reference has
> become a political reference.  Please feel free to s/Joe/Suzy/g to
> correct my political insensitivities, on all fronts.  :)
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
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> PS - Munger '08!  (even if he won't win, if you agree with him, make a
> statement, do your part for democracy)
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