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The consulting industry is fiercely competitive and nets between $130B and $150B a year. In fact, professional consultants earn more money than many lawyers, doctors and other professionals.
Offering free consultations is a common way for a software consultant to seize new accounts. But is there a red flag where a consultant may be giving away too many services for free? The worst scenario for a professional software consultant is to offer free services to the client and then never hear from them again once they no longer need their help.
Although having the best intentions, many people will waste a consultant's time (i.e., client ignores or rejects any suggested approaches or solutions given by the consultant and seek the services of someone who will do it cheaper or will attempt to do it themselves). Small business owners especially can be challenging to work with. Some clients have a tendency to jump into projects before having adequate resources to finish what they have started, decide to go in a different direction midstream, while others simply don't want to spend any money when getting professional services. It's hard to believe, but some clients actually expect to receive free services for life. To counteract this notion, a software consultant can draw the line by offering free services within a promotional time frame and then begin charging a fee for services rendered after that time.
A good indicator of what a client's true intentions are is to monitor their activity within a specified period to see if their consultation activity bears fruit in the form of a contract. One big red flag is non-commitment on the part of the client. If they seem indecisive or vague about what they want it may be time to move on. Although there are times when a free consultation results in a paying client years later, who can wait that long?
Less of Your Time is Wasted When You're Upfront
After being burned, some professional software consultants no longer give free consulting. They find that clients are much more willing to follow their advice when they have paid something. In order to close an account, a happy medium can be agreed upon by both parties involved as a way to build a long term relationship with highly qualified prospects.
A software consultant's work, knowledge, skills and time are valuable. They can offer a potential client general solutions instead of addressing specific challenges. If a specific topic of discussion, troubleshooting session or other issue needs to be addressed, the consultant can inform the client of any upfront costs to receive a particular service if they need further assistance. Really, a free software consultation (if one is given) should be presented in a very similar way someone would hand out samples of a product at a grocery store. A professional consultant ideally wants clients to see how they can benefit using their services on a trial basis with a pitch leading to more extensive services which would only be available if they sign a contract with their firm.
Red Flags
Facebook was originally intended as a way for people to stay in touch with friends and family members by sharing pictures and status updates on their timeline. As the website's popularity has grown, so has criticism that it is becoming one giant, online high school.
Online Bullying
There has been a dramatic increase in recent years in the number of online bullying cases due to the introduction of social media. Bullying isn't just limited to younger Facebook users, either. Many adult users have also resorted to bashing others online through nasty status updates and cruel comments.
Prior to social media, bullying in high school involved "kick me" signs and toilet swirling. Facebook and other social media outlets have allowed users to take bullying to a whole other level. Victims can no longer escape bullying by leaving school or work. The torture continues online, at anytime and anyplace.
Status "Likes"
In high school, everyone wants to be part of the popular crowd; people who are outgoing, beautiful, and seem like they have everything. Posting a status update is similar to wanting to be popular. Once an update is posted, many users wait with bated breath to see how many friends will "like" their status. They believe that the more "likes" they receive, the more popular they are.
If that isn’t enough, there are many Facebook games that involve "liking" someone's status. Games like "Truth Is", where someone likes a status update and in return the poster writes how they really feel about the friend on their Facebook wall. This can get touchy, especially if the two people aren't friends outside of Facebook. It's similar to high school where someone desperately wants another person to like them, but when they find out how that person really feels they are crushed.
Relationships Are Difficult to Keep Private
When someone signs up for Facebook they’re asked to complete their profile, which includes a relationship section. Users can select from different options including "single", "married", "widowed", and "divorced". Whenever someone changes their relationship status, the update shows up on each of their friend's news feeds.
It's easy to see how this feature correlates with high school where everyone talks about who is dating who or which couple broke up. It used to be that after graduation, people were able to keep their relationships more to themselves. Not so anymore in the age of social media. Now everyone has the ability to state their opinion on a friend's relationship status, either by "liking" their status change or by commenting on it.
Facebook has presented many benefits to its users, including the ability to rekindle old high school friendships. What one must understand when they sign up for the service is that they are opening themselves up to the same criticism and drama that takes place in a high school setting.
Proceed with caution!
Much of success is about performance. It’s about what we do and what we are able to inspire others to do. There are some simple performance principles I have learned in my life, and I want to share them with you. They really bring success, and what it takes to be successful, into sharp focus. They are also the basis for developing and maintaining an expectation of success.
The Five Principles of Performance
1. We generally get from ourselves and others what we expect. It is a huge fact that you will either live up or down to your own expectations. If you expect to lose, you will. If you expect to be average, you will be average. If you expect to feel bad, you probably will. If you expect to feel great, nothing will slow you down. And what is true for you is true for others. Your expectations for others will become what they deliver and achieve. As Gandhi said, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
2. The difference between good and excellent companies is training. The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them! A football team would not be very successful if they did not train, practice, and prepare for their opponents. When you think of training as practice and preparation, it makes you wonder how businesses survive that do not make significant training investments in their people.
Actually, companies that do not train their people and invest in their ability don’t last. They operate from a competitive disadvantage and are eventually gobbled up and defeated in the marketplace. If you want to improve and move from good to excellent, a good training strategy will be the key to success.
F# is excellent for specialties such as scientific computing and data analysis. It is an excellent choice for enterprise development as well. There are a few great reasons why you should consider using F# for your next project.
Concise
F# is not cluttered up with coding noise; no pesky semicolons, curly brackets, and so on. You almost never have to specify the kind of object you're referencing because of its powerful type inference system. It usually takes fewer lines of code to solve the same issue.
Convenient
Common programming tasks are much easier in F#. These include generating and using state machines, comparison and equality, list processing, as well as complex type definitions. It is very easy to generate powerful and reusable code because functions are first class objects. This is done by creating functions that have other functions as parameters or that combine existing functions to generate a new functionality.
Correctness
F# has a strong type system, and, therefore, prevents many common errors such as null reference exceptions. Valuables are immutable by default which, too, prevents a huge class of errors. You can also encode business logic by utilizing the type system. When done correctly, it is impossible to mix up units of measure or to write incorrect code thereby decresing the need of unit tests.
Concurrency
F# has number of built-in libraries. These libraries help when more than one thing at a time is occurring. Parallelism and asynchronous programming are very simple. There is also a built-in actor model as well as excellent support for event handling and functional reactive programming. Sharing state and avoiding locks are much easier because data structures are immutable by default.
Completeness
F# also supports other styles that are not 100 percent pure. This makes it easier to interact with the non-pure world of databases, websites, other applications, and so on. It is actually designed as a hybrid functional/OO language. F# is also part of the .NET ecosystem. This gives you seamless access to all the third party .NET tools and libraries. It operates on most platforms. These platforms include Linux and smartphones via mono. Visual Studio is integrates with F# as well. This means you get many plug-ins for unit tests, a debugger, a IDE with IntelliSense support, other development tasks. You can use MonoDevelop IDE on Linux.
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F# - Marching Towards Top 10 Programming Languages
What Are the Advantages of Python Over Ruby?
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Tech Life in Texas
Company Name | City | Industry | Secondary Industry |
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Dr Pepper Snapple Group | Plano | Manufacturing | Nonalcoholic Beverages |
Western Refining, Inc. | El Paso | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Frontier Oil Corporation | Dallas | Manufacturing | Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
ConocoPhillips | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Dell Inc | Round Rock | Computers and Electronics | Computers, Parts and Repair |
Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. | Houston | Transportation and Storage | Transportation & Storage Other |
GameStop Corp. | Grapevine | Retail | Retail Other |
Fluor Corporation | Irving | Business Services | Management Consulting |
Kimberly-Clark Corporation | Irving | Manufacturing | Paper and Paper Products |
Exxon Mobil Corporation | Irving | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Cameron International Corporation | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Energy and Utilities Other |
Celanese Corporation | Irving | Manufacturing | Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
HollyFrontier Corporation | Dallas | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Kinder Morgan, Inc. | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
Marathon Oil Corporation | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
United Services Automobile Association | San Antonio | Financial Services | Personal Financial Planning and Private Banking |
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. | Plano | Retail | Department Stores |
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. | Dallas | Energy and Utilities | Energy and Utilities Other |
Atmos Energy Corporation | Dallas | Energy and Utilities | Alternative Energy Sources |
National Oilwell Varco Inc. | Houston | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Other |
Tesoro Corporation | San Antonio | Manufacturing | Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
Halliburton Company | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Energy and Utilities Other |
Flowserve Corporation | Irving | Manufacturing | Tools, Hardware and Light Machinery |
Commercial Metals Company | Irving | Manufacturing | Metals Manufacturing |
EOG Resources, Inc. | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Whole Foods Market, Inc. | Austin | Retail | Grocery and Specialty Food Stores |
Waste Management, Inc. | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Waste Management and Recycling |
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
Valero Energy Corporation | San Antonio | Manufacturing | Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
FMC Technologies, Inc. | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Alternative Energy Sources |
Calpine Corporation | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
Texas Instruments Incorporated | Dallas | Computers and Electronics | Semiconductor and Microchip Manufacturing |
SYSCO Corporation | Houston | Wholesale and Distribution | Grocery and Food Wholesalers |
BNSF Railway Company | Fort Worth | Transportation and Storage | Freight Hauling (Rail and Truck) |
Affiliated Computer Services, Incorporated (ACS), a Xerox Company | Dallas | Software and Internet | E-commerce and Internet Businesses |
Tenet Healthcare Corporation | Dallas | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Hospitals |
XTO Energy Inc. | Fort Worth | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Group 1 Automotive | Houston | Retail | Automobile Dealers |
ATandT | Dallas | Telecommunications | Telephone Service Providers and Carriers |
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation | Spring | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Apache Corporation | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Dean Foods Company | Dallas | Manufacturing | Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging |
American Airlines | Fort Worth | Travel, Recreation and Leisure | Passenger Airlines |
Baker Hughes Incorporated | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Continental Airlines, Inc. | Houston | Travel, Recreation and Leisure | Passenger Airlines |
RadioShack Corporation | Fort Worth | Computers and Electronics | Consumer Electronics, Parts and Repair |
KBR, Inc. | Houston | Government | International Bodies and Organizations |
Spectra Energy Partners, L.P. | Houston | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
Energy Future Holdings | Dallas | Energy and Utilities | Energy and Utilities Other |
Southwest Airlines Corporation | Dallas | Transportation and Storage | Air Couriers and Cargo Services |
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The Hartmann Software Group understands these issues and addresses them and others during any training engagement. Although no IT educational institution can guarantee career or application development success, HSG can get you closer to your goals at a far faster rate than self paced learning and, arguably, than the competition. Here are the reasons why we are so successful at teaching:
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