Re: FN-FORUM Don't Dump Your Clients

date posted 29th January 2002 23:23

Hi Keith,

> Who said it was you? ;o)

ah well - don't spoil it - let me have my two minutes of fame ;)

>
> Business here is pretty good at the moment - December was as dead as a
dodo
> but January has been OK and February is looking fairly promising - though
we
> could always do with more!
>
> How about you?

things are a bit weird to be honest - December was quite good for us, we
prepared loads of quotes and sample project designs for customers - and we
have been actually really surprised that _all_ of them have come back saying
the quote was acceptable and the design was great... unfortunately, we're
now waiting for the projects to start. Until we receive the first batch of
documentation for the projects along with the signed contract of services we
can't invoice a staged payment...so as you can imagine, finances are
non-existant (with payday fast approaching!).

I've actually been putting my CV out and about to agencies for contract jobs
for a few months to try and boost the bank balance up a bit... I wouldn't
mind normally, but we had to get rid of 2 of our staff just before Christmas
because our biggest client went into administration owing us a lot of
money....and I don't want to have to get rid of the remaining :(

So if anyone has any overflow work which they want to pass our way ;-)
Actually if Dan/Andy want to give me a call about hosting/servers - we can
always talk about putting a server on our backbone..drop me an Email offlist
if you want info.

Rgds,

Carl.