Robert Weiner

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Should You Delete Donor Records?

Robert Weiner

I was recently contacted by the vendor behind a new cloud-based donor management system with this question: We have noticed that our clients have become much more conscious about archiving/deleting old donor/prospect records because our pricing model is based on the number of records.

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Lame spam of the day: Charter flight reservation

Robert Weiner

One claimed to come from LinkedIn -- which would be a major change in their business model. How many people 1) have secretaries (not me) and 2) charter airplanes (again, not me). I got two versions of this. Neither one had any graphics or formatting. My anti-virus flagged one of the attachments as a virus but let the other one in.

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So You Want to Be a Consultant? Part II

Robert Weiner

Models: Create a capped-rate, a retainer + hourly for tech support, project-based. Value-based pricing - what is the project worth, including me, the client, and the market (book: Million Dollar Consulting) — you get pragmatic — what is the ROI, what are the metrics and quantification of success?

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

The tech underground model (loose yet organized affiliation of npo techs who share skills and back each other up) is one of the good models out there. an ongoing process…), find your peers, including those who do the things you don’t, and affiliate. They/we may soon have an operations manual to share on how to do it. (2)

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Impressions of the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

You can click the function key next to the letter Z (I gather it's orange on Sprint's model, but not on Verizon's) to simulate arrow keys, but it's still hard to move around. Clicking on text is much more challenging than with a stylus. It's hard to highlight text or back up a few characters.

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