An article that may be of interest:<br><br><a href="http://www.violentacres.com/archives/59">http://www.violentacres.com/archives/59</a><br><br>Slightly vulgar, but entertaining/refreshing nonetheless -- I'd like to draw attention to the point where he says 'I long for the day a manager walks up to a table and says, “How dare you treat my employee this way. Get out now.”' -- That goes for business owners too: if your clients/customers try to bully you around, simply refuse service!<br>
<br>=D<br clear="all">-----<br>Cameron Eagans<br>Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC<br><a href="http://www.blackstormsstudios.com">http://www.blackstormsstudios.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Dane Ensign <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dane@deepsnow.us">dane@deepsnow.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Pardon me for chiming in here. When a client tells me that about a 3 hour estimate, flags go up. You know this already, but if you let them bully you, whether intentionally or not, they will expect all sorts of things. Stand your ground in that special way, that conveys 'Im the professional here and you aren't' with kindness.<div>
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On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Ayen Designs wrote:<br>
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so, I have a client using blog/blog_api. She complains because of the blog naming, the breadcrumb, the naming of the remotely submitted blog article, the url, and more. String_override doesn't work with the blog name. So I told her that if we set it up as a custom content type instead of using blog, there's a log more I could do. I estimated 3 hours to change over everything, create the view, test all the page/url/article/breadcrumb naming, etc. She said my estimate was wrong, because she saw an article on creating a blog in 30 minutes. I need to find a way to make money developing with clients!!!!<br>
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