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How to make money?

Welcome, All the drawings you make you can charge for. Here are a few good reasons, this goes for your software providers also, and your doing their bug fixing! If you are an bug fixer then charge money for your NEW IT services:

1. Your time, effort in researching your industry, and knowing how to make a kitchen cabinet in your work environment also helps.
2. You are able to create designs for others in real colour and size compared to drawing a sketch plan by hand.
3. Your information is your time and your time is money. Like the first two reasons. Please charge for your time. Others will and they have done.

Selling point number one is: Y O U
If I wanted to make your software I would ask you for your help, and I would be working in your workshop to ensure my software ran correctly. Not for you to set-up or should I make your kitchens and you can program for me!

Selling point number two is: Your Business
You have been in operation say 28 years, with 3 computers. If you want to setup a workshop of 30 persons running them like battery hens or now you need to swap to a more technical aspect of design and construction then - Sorry but I can only suggest you get a business consultant and a very good bank manager. Then you or someone you hire should consider looking at software! Simply put - you know your stuff not someone else selling computers, or do they advertise for you yet?

Selling point number three is: Your SALE
Yes your sale is your software provider's next selling point. We did it.
Go grab your self a copy of some software application, and put it away, or get some-one else to use it for you. Then get that software sales person to travel around your competition. Your compression will send their clients to you for a cheep design, and guess what some don't go back but most did in the research conducted in 1997 so this may not be good for you to try. In vane your compression will scramble (or are you) to getting this new selling tool when all you needed was a graphics artist. What a waist of money! The only shame is that persons who do good, persons like Bill always get the crap from all of us because of the few who rip others off by producing this type of softwares if not Bill him self.

A long time ago, some one told me that joiners do not talk. Competition, you can be friends but the jobs the job. The same should be said when you look for a software solution.

If you need a solution then you need a lot of time in choosing all of your software and hardware. If you have to phone up or dial in to get your 'demo' software then do not worry your not to missing much. Hardware locks limit your existing hardware and software. Programming the software to suit your needs will take time. Hardware will change over that time so an update costs may not be desirable to your businesses solution. You will need to try many software applications before you can find ones you would like to use at the best overall cost.

Computer hardware can be found by cutting a item out of an advertisement, go back a year or two later, and then try to find that same item. Computer hardware that hold value are the most popular and will more likely last any updates. In addition, they are more than likely they get cheaper over time! 10-20 years = next to $0 for hardware devices because of their popularity! A good computer magazine also helps you see which standards are going to be used in future personal computer hardware.

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Updated on the 27th of June, 2004.