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Kind of a continuation of my hate of RFPs and paper...
Here is my rant for quote requests I get on occasion:
- A prospect basically tell me they are in the X industry and I need a web site.
- They then politely ask to send them a quote that include all my ideas and prices for those ideas.
- They are unsure which direction they want to go, but they want me to spend my time figuring it out for them, at no cost.
- Then when I am done working up ideas for them.
- They can take those ideas to India to do at a fraction of the cost.
Or maybe I am looking into these requests too deeply and they have no intention to do that.
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Your probably right, they would most likely take them ideas to India, however why don't you try this...next time they call saying that your company needs a website you should ask them to arrange a face to face meeting.
Posted by: Vim | August 12, 2010 4:15 AM
while yes 'off-shore' has usually meant India..we now see much more of same but to eastern European countries....czechs, slovakia and slovenia come to mind just in the past 6 months or so....
but I do agree, Barry...not worth the effort to supply that kind of "free aid" to their marketing programs, so we too ask for a face to face meeting always...
;-)
Jim
Posted by: Jim | August 13, 2010 10:12 AM