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Hi all, I thought I would pop in to the forum and see what's been going on.
Well my company is taking off at the mo, and I'm well chuffed
This isn't a post just to show off, I do have a request - honestly.
We had our third birthday last week, and because we have the home office networking thing sorted and our running costs are lower than full on software houses with offices, sales teams, management etc, then we seem to be taking on more software and web development work from companies that are looking around for value for money.
One nice compliment recently was a large company that paid 1 million for its website, and 20K per update said "nah you cant get that kind of work out of freelancers, or small businesses, you need to go to these large software houses and pay the earth".
After a couple of meetings and presentations we managed to convince them that we worked for those expensive development companies for years and it is us that essentially does the work. Our advantage is they talk to us rather than Chinese whispers through a salesman that knows nothing and promises the earth.
Anyway the long and short of it is we are now getting a nice amount of work through word of mouth and well, it looks like we may have to expand.
We currently have a couple of graphic artists / designers we use around Cambridge and London, and a dotnet freelancer who is based in Cambridge and is fantastic.
But I live and work up in Peterborough, and it would be nice to have another freelancer on the books that is nearby me.
I don't want to go down the agency route, and I don't want to pay another company to flick through CVs and tell me who to employ. I want to meet up with someone and go for a pint and a chat and see for myself if I think they have the right stuff.
Right now I cant promise enough work to guarantee a 40 hour week for the next 6 months, but a couple of jobs (3 month contracts) are about 80% confirmed to kick off in January and to be honest we are going to be snowed under with current work and don't want to hit the point of having too much work and not being prepared for it. We pride ourselves on keeping the customer happy and I don't want to start having to apologise to customers, it's not my style.
So does anyone know a DotNet guru in the north Cambridgeshire area?
If you know of anyone who works at home and might want a new contract then tell them to drop me a mail. We work in all manner of projects from pocket PC, to 3D gaming, to websites.
I am currently mastering PHP which I am not a fan of, but the people we are after should know C# and ASP.NET as that is the bread and butter jobs.
At some point we will get enough time off ourselves so that we can redo our website. We are 3 years old and that still looks like it did at the start heheh.
Anyways speak to you all soon,
Lins.
Well my company is taking off at the mo, and I'm well chuffed
This isn't a post just to show off, I do have a request - honestly.
We had our third birthday last week, and because we have the home office networking thing sorted and our running costs are lower than full on software houses with offices, sales teams, management etc, then we seem to be taking on more software and web development work from companies that are looking around for value for money.
One nice compliment recently was a large company that paid 1 million for its website, and 20K per update said "nah you cant get that kind of work out of freelancers, or small businesses, you need to go to these large software houses and pay the earth".
After a couple of meetings and presentations we managed to convince them that we worked for those expensive development companies for years and it is us that essentially does the work. Our advantage is they talk to us rather than Chinese whispers through a salesman that knows nothing and promises the earth.
Anyway the long and short of it is we are now getting a nice amount of work through word of mouth and well, it looks like we may have to expand.
We currently have a couple of graphic artists / designers we use around Cambridge and London, and a dotnet freelancer who is based in Cambridge and is fantastic.
But I live and work up in Peterborough, and it would be nice to have another freelancer on the books that is nearby me.
I don't want to go down the agency route, and I don't want to pay another company to flick through CVs and tell me who to employ. I want to meet up with someone and go for a pint and a chat and see for myself if I think they have the right stuff.
Right now I cant promise enough work to guarantee a 40 hour week for the next 6 months, but a couple of jobs (3 month contracts) are about 80% confirmed to kick off in January and to be honest we are going to be snowed under with current work and don't want to hit the point of having too much work and not being prepared for it. We pride ourselves on keeping the customer happy and I don't want to start having to apologise to customers, it's not my style.
So does anyone know a DotNet guru in the north Cambridgeshire area?
If you know of anyone who works at home and might want a new contract then tell them to drop me a mail. We work in all manner of projects from pocket PC, to 3D gaming, to websites.
I am currently mastering PHP which I am not a fan of, but the people we are after should know C# and ASP.NET as that is the bread and butter jobs.
At some point we will get enough time off ourselves so that we can redo our website. We are 3 years old and that still looks like it did at the start heheh.
Anyways speak to you all soon,
Lins.
