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I have to stress the point of beeing in agreement with the client on exactly what's supposed to be delivered, and when. I've been in one to many projects when the sales guy sold a project to a client, came to us told us what he sold, we speced it and started the process with the client and ended up with 20 revisions on the design, then a shitload of coding and when the tests started the client wants to change fundamental stuff. In short, the sales guy sold a polished Fiat, and the client thought he was buying a Mercedes at a bargin price... This can be handled if it's just a normal simple html-site, but when you are in the middle of a project sold for 3.5 millions (SEK) and 3 months calculated on a whishlist instead of a requirement specification and you start to realize that correct pricing should be around 8 millions and a timeframe of 8-9 months, it's less than fun... Garanteed! As for selling the idea/site to the client. I've actually sold a 400.000 sek site using a static series of htmlpages, white bg, border="1" on the tables and Times-font... I sold it on the functionality, the visual stuff we worked out in a workshop + 2 revisions after the project started. This was 1.5 years ago and the client ( [url=http://www.coreventures.se/]http://www.coreventures.se/[/url] ) and I are still working even though I've changed job since then. This shows that there is more than one way to skin a cat, it can hurt a lot, or a little less if you prepare ahead. /Dan [url=http://www.dmsproject.com/] [img]http://www.dmsproject.com/gif/sig2.gif[/img] [/url]
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