>People don't want to buy a bunch of small stuff a la carte. They just don't.
Are you familiar with In App Purchases? The fact that so many apps are moving towards being free with paid content after purchase/install kind of goes against your statement. If anything, it would support the argument that people are willing to use a system like this if it is usable and trustworthy.
When learning a new language it is often difficult to master the little details. Swap out 'has' with 'have', 'its' with 'their', 'other' with 'others' and it changes to:
"All the services have their advantages and disadvantages over others"
Each of these differences may appear significant to a native speaker, but the basic meaning of each word is almost the same.
Exactly. I censor myself all the time in any online setting that isn't anonymous. I'll have my contribution to the conversation typed out, edited, and then I think on whether someone somewhere could possible take it the wrong way, or if it could come back to bite me. It's usually not worth posting (to me) if it's a controversial topic - there's very little to be gained, but a lot to lose.
I really wish this was not the case. Though it may seem to many like there is very little to be gained by honesty, I'd love to see a world where people weren't afraid to say what they thought, to speak their mind. I get tired of living in such a sterile world.
The thing that keeps me from disclosing identity in many venues isn't so much "what will people who know me think of what I said" as it is "don't give blackhats any more reason to grief me over things I've said". Hopefully that is something I myself can get over eventually.
Also, don't underestimate the value of making sure a client is happy. My first client required little more than setting up a WordPress theme and doing some design tweaks. I bent over backwards for them, and now about half of my clients are referrals from that first client.
I'm not saying that you should do everything for everyone, because some people will be unreasonable; when you're first starting out it's probably in your best interest to be a little more flexible.
Agree, at the end of the day your happy clients will be the best advertising for you, so happy client is the most important thing for sure.
Also I would say that using platforms such as FB and publish there to all your friends that you are starting your own business may help you spread the word.
I dint mean to say Elance is bad or something, I just prefer Odesk over Elance and thats my personal opinion. As I mentioned I find more projects on Odesk that interests me, that is just evident that I was giving my personal opinion.
And if you want differences between the two, I would say the option of using 4 extra credits on Elance to get your application on top is very stupid and Odesk has a very simple UX.
Hopefully, one day I will be the crotchety old man complaining about how the new kids never had to worry about IE8 issues.