If you are a consultant working alone, why don't you borrow some thinking from the industrial age: that being, creating a firm so as to minimise the costs of transactions that you would otherwise incur alone. As you spend your time 1) Finding work 2) Admin 3) Doing work
...why not create a loose collective to economise on the admin and finding? Cross promotion of each other? Pooled resources on research? Just a thought. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Collins <t...@acidlabs.org> wrote: > > I think the challenge for many of us in 2009 will be to continue to > prove our relevance to our clients. Many of us who are in small or > solo businesses will have to fight for work (although I have a newly > signed client today, so I'm happy about that) in a more competitive > market. We'll need to review pricing, terms and the way we do things. > > I agree that there's plenty of work to be had. I have this new client > and two other leads that I am pretty certain will come through. > > One thing that I'm already involved in that I think more of us will > need to do is combining our services with others that offer > complementary or matching services. As an example, I'm working with a > few well-known names in the Enterprise 2.0 space to come up with a > vendor- and analyst-independent offering to provide services to > clients wherever they are. > > We're all going to have to tighten belts and spend less. Maybe the new > laptop every two years will stretch to three... > > Steve > -- > Stephen Collins > Cell +61 410 680722 > Skype trib22 > www.twitter.com/trib > www.linkedin.com/in/stephencollins > > www.acidlabs.org > > acidlabs > Conversation. Collaboration. Community. > > This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private > > > -- Elias Bizannes http://liako.biz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
