>How do you manage to stay busy? Have any Paradox work that you need to
farm out? I'd be interested to know.
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    Hey Bill ...
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         I've got a professional salesman "associated" with my
         company.  He mainly sells hardware, but it's turning out 
         that most of his clients need customized software, too.
         To do this entrepreneurial thing, somebody's GOT to go out
         and knock on doors.  I used to be in the sales game for a
         few years ... and HATED it.  
         The rough part is that it takes me 4 to 6 weeks to develop
         a typical application.  It doesn't take an advanced degree
         in mathematics to figure that them's low wages.  Furthermore,
         most folks are not willing to pay what the stuff is worth.
         So, the second part of my business plan is to market, via
         first class mail, the apps that I've already developed.  And
         I couple this with the help of my salesman when the targets
         are within reasonable driving distance.
         The above, coupled with a meticulous effort to give the 
         clients exactly what they need and want, plus courteous and
         helpful follow-ups seems to be SLOWLY building into a
         real job with real pay.
         I keep my overhead low, low, low.  I get an average of 49 hours
         per week into hands-on coding, and (despite a missed cue now
         and again) make sure I know what it is the client needs before
         I call up the first blank form.
         My background is as a professional writer and graphic artist
         (read: paste the magazine together), so now I'm still doing
         the same thing:  I tell a story and make it pretty.
         Seems like it's been two years since Borland released Pdoxwin 1.0
         Since that first day I've been trying, trying, trying with
         various and sundry setbacks.  Took me 6 months to build my
         first app.
         As far as farming out work, who knows?  Right now I'm working
         (rather lackadaisically) with a participant in this echo to
         build a Pdox Programmers' Program.
         Ain't it all fun?
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    Aardvark Love!
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    Papa Robert
 * WOOF! * My dog wasn't broken ... but I had her fixed anyway!
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