<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hi Fred,<br><br>What does it for us is the following<br><br>1. I monitor drupal jobs and group postings for jobs. We have a strong sweet spot of having excellent systems (LAMP) skills and generalized development experience. Combining those to I search for jobs that fill that niche.<br>2. Working with a group of people. Being one person it is really hard to sell yourself and work your projects at the same time. I have consistently gotten more leads and been able to track them down. Versus getting a lead and being in the middle of a project. This is a division of labor issue.<br>3. The longer I have been in business with a group of people the more we are getting referrals.<br>4. If you are are developer try to team up with a designer. They are much better at tracking down new business. One reason is once the site is designed and themed there isn't more much they can do from a maintenance perspective. Plus they do a much better job at leading when it comes to the sales process. This assumes your site builder. Which it sounds like you are.<br><br>As far as updating your website. That might help. We mention Drupal once on our site. I have been with xforty for 2+ years and have won a lot of Drupal business. So much so we haven't had time to launch a new website. We are close but we are very busy.<br><br>----- "Fred Jones" <fredthejonester@gmail.com> wrote:
<br><br>> <br>> So I was thinking of making myself a website and then trying to put<br>> some energy into whatever it is that might help attract more work to<br>> me, as opposed to my current system of chasing after it.<br>> <br>> Any ideas are appreciated. :)<br>> <br>> Thanks,<br>> Fred<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> consulting mailing list<br>> consulting@drupal.org<br>> http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting<br>> <br>> <br><br>-- <br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><font style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;" size="5"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">xforty technologies</span></font><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Christian Pearce<br>888-231-9331 x1119<br><a href="http://xforty.com/">http://xforty.com</a></span></span></div><br></div></body></html>