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3 Things About 5, Starting on the 1st

Posted October 13, 2009 @ 12:36 PM, by Marc, in Business, BWS 6 Comments icon

While January 1st is still a couple of months away, it’s been on my mind recently due to three important things that take place on that day, each of which has something to do, more or less, with the number 5:

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Comparing Apples to Oranges

Posted July 20, 2009 @ 9:52 AM, by Marc, in Business, BWS, Client 18 Comments icon

Basic line-graph showing an increase in project inquiries and those that should be declined, over time

As Boston Web Studio gains more traffic, more attention, and more referrals, the amount of project inquiries I receive increases proportionately. At the same time, and because of math and all of its wondrous properties, the amount of inquiries that I should politely decline increases as well.

While there are numerous reasons any given project should be declined, the one that’s been on my mind lately is that of being compared to another agency whose estimate is much lower than mine for the same work. As I’ll point out below, the term ‘same work’ is ambiguous and rarely means what it implies.

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Receiving Unique Payments with PayPal

Posted February 05, 2008 @ 12:31 PM, by Marc, in Business, Client 0 Comments icon

For you busy folks: skip the article below and view the explanations, steps, code examples, and live demonstrations.

Boston Web Studio has been creating websites since January, 2005, yet during the first three years we were never asked if credit cards were accepted for invoice payments. During those first few years we simply received checks and had given very little thought to receiving any other form of payment. Not long ago, however, three clients asked if we could take credit cards and, unfortunately, I had to answer “no,” but I promised that we would soon.

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