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A Summer Internship

Posted June 11, 2010 @ 6:41 PM, by Marc, in Business, BWS 6 Comments icon

They say that you should try to hire people who are smarter than you are, so please take a moment to congratulate me because I’ve done that very thing. Between the end of this month and half-way through August, the talented Bruce W. Spang—‘W’ for Win, probably not his real middle name—will be the smartest person working at Boston Web Studio. As magical as that may be, I regret to inform you myself that it’s not a permanent position, something about Bruce finishing high school, so the increase in office-awesomeness will be but a moment in the company’s lifetime.

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3 Things About 5, Starting on the 1st

Posted October 13, 2009 @ 12:36 PM, by Marc, in Business, BWS 6 Comments icon

While January 1st is still a couple of months away, it’s been on my mind recently due to three important things that take place on that day, each of which has something to do, more or less, with the number 5:

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Comparing Apples to Oranges

Posted July 20, 2009 @ 9:52 AM, by Marc, in Business, BWS, Client 18 Comments icon

Basic line-graph showing an increase in project inquiries and those that should be declined, over time

As Boston Web Studio gains more traffic, more attention, and more referrals, the amount of project inquiries I receive increases proportionately. At the same time, and because of math and all of its wondrous properties, the amount of inquiries that I should politely decline increases as well.

While there are numerous reasons any given project should be declined, the one that’s been on my mind lately is that of being compared to another agency whose estimate is much lower than mine for the same work. As I’ll point out below, the term ‘same work’ is ambiguous and rarely means what it implies.

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