Today I had personal contact called me and asked me if I could consulate him on web technologies so I made an appointment to meet with him. During our meeting without any delay we dove right into what web 2.0 was about and internet marketing, he gave me scope and I gave him the tools he needed to consulate his client. Without going into too much detail due to a Non-Disclosure agreement after the meeting he asked me to produce a proposal by the end of next week and if that went well “it’s on”.

What worries me is not the work nor is it the growth in business it’s the age old problem of running a business. In the quest of making a living I understand that as web firms get to big they become to costly to hire and inefficient and days of the one guy sitting at his home designing, coding, and hosting a web site are gone. There is no room for either in this newly web future so I have my paradox of how much work can a team of five handle until our quality of work suffers and our human touch fades? The truth is if you do good work and if you have a reputation that goes beyond how we look on a computer screen, just like that quote from baseball “if you build it, they will come” well, they’ve came and I may have to either schedule them to the future or turn them away. However, I believe this balancing act will have to go on until our quality starts to suffer and then and only then will we consider turning our clients away.

“Death of a salesman” or in our terms “Death of a Computer Geek”

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