How do you succeed in the fastest pace internet yet? You team up. Or partner, or whatever you want to call it. The idea is to find someone you can get along with professionally that has the opposite skill set. For me, this means always relying on someone else to do programming. Many of you are in the same situation.
You’ve probably joined a larger team, maybe you work for a company. Many of you are from small agencies with just the right skills but many more of you have questions, like, How can I ever learn that when I spend all my time learning this? Or maybe you’re wondering how you can sell services other than those you can provide directly? Partner.
If you want to get to the next level, it’s time to find that special person or persons that you can work with that have the opposite skills. Make the leap and you’ll be able to turn almost any RFP into an account.
Finally, in the news, look for IE7 to magically appear as your new browser this month, Google just launched Docs & Spreadsheets docs.google.com. The docs part is Writely. ZOHO Virtual office is also launching according to TechCrunch and Microsoft is airing a Feature battle between Visual Studio and Dreamweaver 8. All the links are at wowtechminute.com
From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawaii, this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the WOW Technology Minute.
Places to scope out potential partners:
Freelance Designers
Guru.com
http://guru.com
Dice.com
http://dice.com
Craigslist.com
http://craigslist.com (look in computer gigs section)
Google Groups
Find Web Designers
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups/search?q=web+designers+partner&qt_s=Search’
Google Groups
Find Web Developers
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups/search?q=web+developers+partner