Presentations Are A Waste of Time

Almost every time I've done a "presentation" for a potential client, I never got the project. Almost every time I just walked in and asked good questions and answered their questions, I got the project.

What's that mean?

Clients don't want to be presented to. Or, I'm really, really bad at presentations.

;-)

Nice article on this subject from RainToday

Nerd Quote of the Day from iWoz

Found this quote at Guy Kawasaki's blog:

The statement that convinced Woz to leave HP to start Apple (uttered by Allen Baum) was, “You can be an engineer and become a manager and get rich, or you can be an engineer and stay an engineer and get rich."

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