Signed a new $2500 client today. Drinks are on me.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Half up front, half when the Website is finished (in one month).

The work is out there. You have to beat the hedges harder than any time I remember in my lifetime, but it IS out there.

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

:toast:

[MrScorpio]

1. Congrats, Bro

You earned it, I'm sure.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Thank you, my friend...

...I did my homework. I went in prepared. I knew my stuff, and the response was "I like what you have to offer and your solid knowledge of the industry."

That's how you get paid.

:toast:

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. Congratulations!

Always good news when you get a nice payoff for your efforts.

:toast:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Grazie, LFP...

...those payoffs are what provide the strength for future efforts.

"I did it before, and I'm going to do it again."

:toast:

[mix]

4. good, i'm thirsty

Congratulations!

:toast:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. Drink up, and thanks!

:toast:

[grace0418]

7. Congrats! I agree. It hasn't been easy but I've been working my butt off and not complaining.

Being a freelancer is a helluva lotta work but it's so worth it for me. I've made more this year than I ever have before, but I've worked sooooo hard to get there.

Cheers my friend.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Thanks Grace...

...I agree. A lot of people are going to shut down mentally as we approach the holidays, but the professionals who are willing to work hard and tenaciously will emerge on top.

Best wishes for your continued success.

:toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear Amerigo Vespucci!

Now, that is outstanding news! I hope your fortunes do nothing but get better from here on out!

I know they will be thrilled with your work!

:toast:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. Thanks CP...

...the best part about being at the bottom is the only remaining view is "up."

:toast:

[kimi]

10. Congratulations and well-deserved!

Happy for ya! :applause:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. Thank you kimi!

:toast:

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. Congratulations, AV...

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...and WELL-deserved with all the effort you put into your work.
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I've always wished for a job that would actually compensate me
for the effort I'm willing to put into it.
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And BTW, I used to tend bar (one of my favorite jobs) in a relaxed
white-collar bar and the ONLY people who would come in and shout,
"ONE FOR THE WHOLE JOINT!!!!" (other than the har-de-har-har
jokesters who would shout it once they saw there were only one or
two customers there) were car salesman who had had an exceptionally
good day.
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We did have an EXCEPTIONALLY nice factory-owner who would have
a skeleton crew finish up all the week's odds-and-ends on Saturday
morning and, in addition to the overtime pay, he would bring them
all to our bar for lunch and drinks all afternoon while watching college
football.
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A really NICE man in so many ways... and he started off as the
janitor in that factory.
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[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. According to the DU home page, "drinks are on me" means I gotta buy 162,200 drinks...

...oops.

:rofl:

:toast:

[OhioChick]

14. Congrats!

:toast:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. Domo arigato, O.C.!

:toast:

:-)

[applegrove]

17. Wow. Websites are a lot of work. I built one and it took me 2 months. You.... 1

month? I'm not worthy!!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

18. I work genuinely insane hours

It's not unusual at all for me to get up at 3 AM on a Saturday morning and work straight through in a marathon until midnight on Sunday, with a couple of hours sleep and a few stretch / coffee breaks.

Tonight was a little different...I am updating a client's Website menus and they have now decided that they want to add prices, so I'm tweaking tables to make everything "pixel perfect." That aspect has a high burnout curve for me so I quit a few minutes ago (8:30 PM) and will pick it up in the morning (3 AM). The client gets to the restaurant around 10:30, everything will be updated by then.

For the new site, it will be one week of my brainstorming ideas for initial approval followed by three weeks of "brick by brick."

:toast:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. that is good news. Congrats AV

:toast:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

23. Thanks TA...

...it's a heck of a lot easier than earning a living one haiku at a time. Although that CAN be lucrative...

:-)

[Kali]

20. hey!

that's better news than the dickhead "old friend" you were dealing with the other day

congrats :toast:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

24. Thanks Kali!

:toast:

[Tripper11]

21. Congratulations Amerigo!

I truly hope this leads to more and more jobs!! :toast:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

25. Thank you Tripper...

...you and me both. Like I said...the wheel eventually turns.

:toast:

[Capn Sunshine]

22. woot!

You rule!

Know what you mean about beating bushes; have a consultant business myself.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. Thanks Capn...

...yep, you not only have to beat those bushes, you have to be in the right place at the right time.

I had a conversation with a client once...a dentist, whose site cost $3500, and this was a month or two after I built the site...I said "I just happened to walk in your office, out of nowhere, at the exact moment in which you were ready to roll, right? He said "Yes."

A lot of planning and a lot of pumping dry wells goes into positioning one's self for those "moments."

:toast: