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I'll sphinn this - Mixx is great. It's nice to get the top news every day without having any of the following:
1. The earth is dying because animals are passing gas! New methane-reducing feeds available!
2. Ron Paul
3. The American government are Nazi's
4. Dick Cheney
5. F*&king lolcats
etc. etc.
I think Mixx will go big. The best part is, it is new enough that there is still time to build a top account without too much work.
Story: This Guy Is The Friend of Spammers! He Will Ask Them To Stop Spamming in Exchange for a Single Link
Just to be clear, the last comment of the description is tongue-in-cheek - I know nobody here would *ever* stoop to such tactics.
Or something like that.
Story: This Guy Is The Friend of Spammers! He Will Ask Them To Stop Spamming in Exchange for a Single Link
Somehow, it appears I managed to post it first... w00t!
Although, http://www.altogetherdigital.com/20070905/blog-spammers-offer-protection-services-thank-god-for-askimet/ has the best write up
4. That isn’t part of our agreement.
what is wrong with this one? I've told clients this often when feature creep or began to appear on contracts.
Of course, my client's have all been very easy to work with up to this point, with one notable exception:
I had one (potential) client who tried to hire me to 'teach her to blog' - installing Wordpress, setting her up with the right plugins, designing a custom theme, and teaching her to use it. A small job, but I was just starting out. She was willing to pay $500-$1000 - I could have the work done in an afternoon.
That is, until it turns out that by 'teaching her to blog', she meant teaching her the whole blogger lifestyle. How to get links. How to write link-worthy content. What conventions to go to. How to network with other bloggers. How to direct sell advertising. How to do SEO.
She wanted tutoring time as part of this deal, for as long as necessary until she was satisfied she knew how to blog which, judging by her above questions, could have been many, many extra hours.
The worst part is, she didn't want to define her needs any tighter than 'teach her to blog', expected a
sub-$1000 project cost, and refused to consider an hourly rate.
To top it all off, at the end of the conversation, she hung up on me after telling me I 'had a bad attitude', and 'wasn't the right person she wanted to hire'.
This was my first bad customer experience. If something like this comes up again, I likely won't waste as much time on it as I did on this particular incident. However, I now understand Sprint's move to cancel contracts with 1200 of their most problematic customers - that must have saved them a huge amount of headaches and cost.
By the way - who knew that this box clips long comments that are submitted? Some warning would have been nice!
Ok, here is something more productive.
[DONE] Please allow us to add our LinkedIN profiles to our Sphinn profiles. LinkedIN is probably more valuable from a networking perspective than Youtube is :P
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