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Originally Posted by aaron
Do you know Jakob Neilsen? I don't mean to sound funny, but he seems to operate with the same sort of business ethic as you do. Granted, he makes his money, but he pisses a lot of people off along the way.
Some of the marketing methods you suggest, would almost definitely - in the UK anyway - be met with a poor reception.
In my opinion, if you do your job really well, you can't go wrong really... people who need to spend almost all of their time marketing their services in a seemingly desperate manner obviously need to try another profession.
No offence.
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No offense taken.
Sorry, I don't know Jakob personally.
Doing your job well, and collecting a paycheck for it, is fine - but where does more work come from if you don't want to rely on your own economically-challenged local market. Only about 10-15% of my work comes from clients within 500 miles of where I live.
I do very little to market my work - I probably spend an hour or two a week. It promotes itself at this point and luckily I am in a position to pick choose clients these days - working for those I enjoy doing business with. Having done this work since the 1970 I want to be in the position to "work less, charge more" nearly 30 years later. That allows me time participate in online forums, concentrate on writing a bit more, and spend time in my garden - when I'm not traveling for business or pleasure.
Thanks for your thoughts. - Jeff