Reply to: Cold Calling - An Update

[vetran]

Tell em your building a consultancy

Agree next time £40K, This time you're doing it cheap to get a foot in the door!

Obligatory bannanas!

[BoredBloke]

C'mon the rest of us want in on this gig

Well it's good to know that it's not a million miles away from the spreadsheets I'm working on in Geneva and that there is a market for this type of work.

[Zippy]

Menelaus the co believes in doing a Fair Trade models deal ...

You big softie

[HairyArsedBloke]

The gig that I've cold-called-and-sold, KPMG (eg) would have sold it for around £100,000 and taken three months to do it. Sod that, especially as the co in question mentioned that (quote):

"at least you're not giving me numbers that would make me sound interested but having me shifting uncomfortably in my seat".

All we need, another "Much quickness, plenty cheapness" wallah.


Bob will be getting upset.

[Menelaus]

Next time 40k ...

And there's the problem ... I couldn't do that with a straight face knowing:

(a) how long the work will take
(b) how much more accurate my output will be
(c) (correlated with (a) above) how easy I find it to do

Menelaus the co believes in doing a Fair Trade models deal ...

[Zippy]

"at least you're not giving me numbers that would make me sound interested but having me shifting uncomfortably in my seat".

Next time 40k ...

[Menelaus]

I'm a mathematical modeller for credit portfolios, liquidity and market risk... with precisely zero commercial skills but my "secret sauce" seems to be not bulltulipting in the same way that the big 4 do, doing small team gigs (me plus 0.5 (as necessary)) and delivering fast.

The gig that I've cold-called-and-sold, KPMG (eg) would have sold it for around £100,000 and taken three months to do it. Sod that, especially as the co in question mentioned that (quote):

"at least you're not giving me numbers that would make me sound interested but having me shifting uncomfortably in my seat".

[cojak]

I posted a note earlier this week on cold calling and having blagged a meeting with a possible client for MyCo.

Just got in from said meeting and have secured £25,000 for a piece of work that'll work out at being around 3.5 weeks long.



Cold calling - is it the future?

Good one!

[norrahe]

Good effort though - what is it you do?

C'mon the rest of us want in on this gig

[BoredBloke]

Assuming a 40 hour week, a tidy £178.57 an hour! Nice one Menelaus.

Nahh - ship it to bob for much cheapness and you can sit back with the G&T's and let him do all the work.

Good effort though - what is it you do?

[bullseye]

You rock, You rock, You rock , You rock , You rock

[Pogle]

Your round methinks

[norrahe]

partay!

nice one

[realityhack]

Assuming a 40 hour week, a tidy £178.57 an hour! Nice one Menelaus.

[Zippy]

One should not rock alone (even with a G & T) so here you go

Appropriate lyrics too.