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Subject:RE: Best technical writing of the season From:"John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com> To:"Cynthia Armistead" <listmail -at- technomom -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:51:20 -0500
A friend of mine has a side business of putting together train layouts
under the Christmas tree. He does about three clients and charges
anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 per layout.
>> The problem with that business plan is that most
>> people won't pay extra for assembly.
> I beg to differ. My partner has a consulting
> client who pays him to come plug in any computer
> equipment he buys - I'm talking about simply
> taking it out of the box and turning it on. He
> also gets an urgent call any time the
