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A certain amount of pre-sale schmoozing is unavoidable,
as is a certain amount of unproductive pre-sale schmoozing
that doesn't actually result in work. It's the nature
of marketing. Once you have the client's signature on the
contract, you'll find that these sorts of conversations
become much less "sucky" when you're billing the time
devoted to them as "client-requested conferences." Just
be sure the contract is per-hour and not fixed-priced. :)
Gene Kim-Eng
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Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:02:13 -0500 Michele Davis?wrote:
>The conversation proceeded into my hourly rate and
>samples of writing I could email to her. But I'm
>thinking working with her is going to suck given that
>conversation. What do y'all think?
