With most of the work we build these days concentrating on software development and IT strategy, it never hurts to read about the power of relationships and personal interaction. How to Choose a Designer lists the basics of picking anyone to work with:
Enthusiasm
Experience
Flexibility
Speed
Trust
IMHO, trust is the most important. Without it, all else can be wrecked when the first disagreement occurs.
I have. I failed at it every time when I hired a person specifically for sales. However, when I hired someone for another position and migrated that person into a sales position, we found mutual success.
Jim Berkowitz’s CRM blog cites an article from Selling Power. His post is a good intro to the lengthier article and excellent for those of you desiring to get the Cliff Notes of a blog post.
http://www.crmmastery.com/weblog/2006/06/13.html#a573
I’ve been using Carbonite for a few weeks now and it’s been backing up ~25 gigs of my data. It’s been really great not having to worry about the archiving and security of the files.
Between the time I started using it and now, a friend had his laptop stolen. He lost pictures and videos of his family in addition to work files. He’d been backing up regularly, but not regularly enough.
If you do not have a solution for backing up your files, I’d suggest looking at Carbonite. For $5/mo, why worry?
