Networking with peers

All,

Some questions about networking with peers:


1. How many of your network with other computer consultants?

2. How many have gotten business that way either by referral or via
subcontract?

3. How many have been able to find subcontractors to help you pull off
a project?

4. How lucrative has it been?

To answer my own questions:

1. I try to network with other computer consultants (of any sort, not
just programmers) regularly. Belonging to the ICCA helps in this
regard, but I also pursue it on my own to the point of hosting my own
networking meetings at times.

2. I've gotten more signed subcontracts than signed contracts on
referral. That may be because the referrals happen in the early
stages when no one has determined whether the project is feasible,
whereas the subcontracts happen much later, after the client has
committed money.

3. I've gotten some good subcontract work done by people I met via
networking with other consultants.

4. Around a quarter of a million bucks so far. Not bad.
--
Charles Calvert
Moderator - alt.computer.consultants.moderated
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Charles Calvert wrote:
> All,
>
> Some questions about networking with peers:
>
>
> 1. How many of your network with other computer consultants?
>
> 2. How many have gotten business that way either by referral or via
> subcontract?
>
> 3. How many have been able to find subcontractors to help you pull off
> a project?
>
> 4. How lucrative has it been?
>
> To answer my own questions:
>
> 1. I try to network with other computer consultants (of any sort, not
> just programmers) regularly. Belonging to the ICCA helps in this
> regard, but I also pursue it on my own to the point of hosting my own
> networking meetings at times.
>
> 2. I've gotten more signed subcontracts than signed contracts on
> referral. That may be because the referrals happen in the early
> stages when no one has determined whether the project is feasible,
> whereas the subcontracts happen much later, after the client has
> committed money.
>
> 3. I've gotten some good subcontract work done by people I met via
> networking with other consultants.
>
> 4. Around a quarter of a million bucks so far. Not bad.

Not bad at all. And it's only April. Merry Christmas.

--
Joe Wright
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--- Albert Einstein ---