Apr
30
Charge Heavily For What You Know
April 30, 2008 | Comments Off
Charge Heavily For What You Know
…but give away what you do not know.
Often I am in a situation where I am called to provide advice and a satisfactory outcome to a situation where the Client doesn’t have the time or expertise to complete a task. I happily do the work: in my opinion faster and [...]
Apr
30
Creating a Market For Consultants
April 30, 2008 | Comments Off
I am currently offering services that are in higher demand than the available offer. That is fortunate for me, as you might expect that the law of Offer and Demand will be in my favor. In reality the macroeconomics law helps – but only if you can put it in a macro economy. [...]
Mar
26
MiddleMan and Providing Value
March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
I am an independent IT consultant. I think there are fewer of those than the industry needs. The important word here is “independent“. To me, an independent consultant or contractor is someone who helps advance the interests of the end client.
Sooner or latter a consultant finds out that they need more resources [...]
Feb
28
Jelly! Casual Co-Working : Thinking about joining or creating one.
February 28, 2008 | Comments Off
I came across this novel idea of Jelly on Nevile’s Blog. It is about casually co-working. It is a concept oriented towards entrepreneurs and freelancers that do most of their work from a mobile workstation (a.k.a. Laptop). Very well suited for IT professionals, graphic artists, writers, and other people who can work [...]
Feb
7
Anes & Rincon : First Year LLC Anniversary
February 7, 2008 | Comments Off
Today is the first anniversary of Anes & Rincon LLC. It has been a very exciting year that started with a call from an overseas partner requesting some help and me having to start a corporation overnight.
We have had tremendous success last year. We have big hopes for 2008, albeit so far [...]
