Archive: May, 2008

What Makes You Excited for a Sales Pitch?

At the beginning of the year I wrote a post about thinking of your web design service as a product. In that case I was talking mostly about how this approach makes pricing your service easier. That’s all true, but I think I stumbled upon another benefit: it’s a lot easier to sell.

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What You Can Learn From Gregory House

HouseFor anyone who isn’t glued to the TV every Monday night, House is a TV show about an extremely obnoxious doctor who makes life difficult for everyone around him. He’s manipulative and vindictive. He has no faith in the concept of basic human goodness, and he goes out of his way to embarass and ridicule everyone who crosses his path. Did I mention he’s a drug addict? He gets away with all of this, though, because he is brilliant and able to arrive at medical diagnoses that no one else is capable of acheiving.

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