The Big Leagues

I'm #1 !!!!!!
My site is now number one ranked on goolge if you search for bbq animations or ipi skyscrappers (but not ipi skyscrapers).

Well, the whole deal with the client I mentioned yesterday is cleared up. I have to say I am not happy though. Basically we had to take a strong stance in order to get paid which meant that in the end, we get paid on time and the client doesn't get the simple but meaningful changes we had planned to give them for free.

Business-wise it ovbiously worked out best, but as the creator of the system, I really wanted to make it the best it could be, which means making the upgrade. The problem now is that I can't give them the upgrade anymore, because we have to be afraid of them trying to takae advantage of us now. If I give them this, they will want more and more. If we suggest the upgrade as a billable item, I don't really see it going through, as they have already made up their minds to use the imperfect system as it is... and they probably wont want to pay the extra.

This happens all the time, and it really baffles me that people can't just be a little patient even when they realize that I am giving them more than they paid for in the name of making a better product, I am giving them something above and beyond the agreement. They just never seem to accept that in order to do that I need some flexibility so I can work on jobs that pay the bills too, or else I'm gonna bill 'em... and the more unhappy I am, and the more afraid I am that they are going to try to take advantage of my generousity, and the more demands they start making about how generous I have to be, the less generous I become and the more little things that I would normally include in the retainer become billable items. It seems so basic... what's not to understand?

You may or may not have noticed (if you did you get a prize) that I have a new link section along the bottom left side of the page entitled "Reading Queue". This is basically just a place where I can bookmark all the pages I come across and think "I really want to read that, just not now". I can bookmark it at that time and it automatically shows up on the site so I know where it is if I ever get a free moment...

Now YOU TOO can get inside my head!!! YOU TOO can learn what I learn!!! Or you can just ignore it.

If you happen to have a site on the basitshnet, (keldog and jonnyboy), I can set it up for you too. You can add links while you surf just like adding them to your favorites list. You don't have to touch the HTML template at all. If you want it, let me know... For more information about it, check out blogrolling.com. It has directions so you could actually set it up yourself, but somehow I don't think Kelly can handle it seeing as she hasn't quite figured out how to read the Moveable Type Documentation yet.