Re: Hello World

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janet, all,

Here's some questions that may spark some discussion:

What is your 1 year, 2 year and 5 year plan to promote yourself and your
business?

What skill set do you feel you will need in order to retain/expand your
customer base? Why?

What is the industry you support and what is going on in their world
that you can provide AS/400 based solutions for?

Do you view a particular contract as a single shot mission or as an
opportunity to develop a long term relationship?

By developing a long term relationship, is your method of choice
creating a dependency or contribution to their bottom line that makes
them -want- you back?

How many of your clients would you willingly use as referrals without
hesitation or qualification?

To answer your questions:

jkrueger@dhagroup.com wrote:
> 
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> 
> Here are some questions we could contemplate:
>   - Is business starting to pick up now after the Y2K hiatus for anything 
>other
> than web related consulting?

Activity among the Y2K clients has subsided, overall business activity
has increased.  By this I mean, clients that were not growing their
business in the first place, but just keeping the status quo by doing a
Y2K upgrade, that part of the business is over, done, dead.  The clients
that have always been growing, are still doing so.  They are still
changing the way they do business and new clients that want to grow are
out there.

>   - Have any of you had direct hands on experience with V4R5, yet?  How 
>rapidly
> would you advise your clients to consider installing it?

No.

>   - What about PASE?  It seem fully functional now with the V4R5 
>implementation;
> any thoughts on how/if to leverage it?

No.  IMHO, PASE is the transitional software from the blending of the
AS/400 and RS/6000 into the AS/6000.

>   - Are consultants truly so bashful that they can't start threads of
> discussion?

No way!

>   - IBM claimed they were going to kick off a new X-Treme ad campaign for the
> 400, has anyone seen signs of it yet?

Nope.  Who watches IBM ads anyway?
> 
> Janet Krueger, in Minnesota, trying to start a snowball rolling...

A snowball in July? I've heard about your winters, but July ... ;-)