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        <title><![CDATA[All the more reason]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To get it into someone's hands quickly and let them start driving your features forward.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sterling "chip" Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:43:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Oh of course]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If they want support, I will give them like 90 days free @ $1000.Training...yeah...I'm gonna make it $500 a day per student.  Bulk discounts for classes larger than 8 plus travel and lodging per my approval of airline/hotel.  They provide everything but the install CDs.Customization?  That will be very limited.  Customization for 1 client that has anything more than basic modifications will be massively expensive.  Making sure I roll out system improvements to 100 paying clients who are about to renew support at $250 a year per module is more important than billing $5,000 in custom mods that are nothing you can use for other customers for other revenue streams.And, hopefully there's gonna be at least 3-4 modules that people would want.- basic office management- accounting- payroll- inventorythen plug into that, based on practice:- legal module (code/rule/decision reference)- medical module (pharm. ref, proc. codes, etc)And like I said...I'd have no issue (if it got successful) with selling out to another software firm as long as they paid me enough.But I figure if the average office bought 3 modules (manager, payroll, inventory), I'd get $3000 a shop...plus $750 a year in support after that.  If I got 50 clients in FL, that'd end up being a nice chunk of change.  And if that went up to a nice number like 500, you're talking retirement within 5 years.But, it's all a pipe dream til it's on the street and people are scheduling installs and what not.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jck]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:53:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Don't forget services]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At $1000 a pop, you're not going to make much money unless you can add on services like training, setup, and customization.  Leave that door wide open.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sterling "chip" Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:56:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yeah]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I been thinkin about that...maybe getting 60%...then taking the initial office management (appt book, admin interface, call log, etc.) in there.Of course, I want his help in things like...what a med office needs besides HICFA coding, medical reference, etc.  I'm sure he'd help me if he gets free software...which I'd do.I'm also going to talk to him about once it is something he wants to use in his office, if he will consider showing it to other doctors in the area and giving him basically a commission for his efforts if he sells some.  I figure if I sell office management software to a doctor for $1000, I can at least give him $100.But, I have to write those modules as they come.  I'm going to have a simple base pack, then have add-ons for medical, dental, legal, and generic business.Cause...buying pencils from Office Depot is very different from buying intravenous antibiotic from Pfizer or bite wing x-ray items from Bayer. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jck]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:49:47 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There's finished, and then there's finished]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It may make sense to make your 40% just a bit more presentable and then introduce it as an alpha version to your doctor.  Start getting a feedback loop going early on, and you'll get to a real product much more quickly.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sterling "chip" Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:55:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Insurance]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You're right -- we all want to have a pipeline of 'to do', and we're afraid of that pipeline ever running dry.  But if we just go ahead and empty it quickly and well, then it will fill up again.  And as you pointed out, you get paid for it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sterling "chip" Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:51:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good point.]]></title>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sterling "chip" Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:49:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's my main problem]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Things often interrupt me, or I want to put them off if I can.Like the software I've been working on for a year now.  I have it about 40% done, but there's a lot more to go.I ended up not working on it yet again after I got hurt.  But, I've been getting the inkling to finish it, then take it to my doctor and see if he'd help me hone it for medical office use.I figure if I can get it in at least 200 offices nationwide, I could get a software company interested in buying me out.Then...retirement to fixing PCs, fishing, and snuggling up by the fireplace with the g/f. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jck]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:38:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Getting Started AND ENDING]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One very good reason to get started is that unless you do that, you cannot work the problem or project to finish and invoice the customer.  Invoice = check and that equals everything else that follows.  So motivation for profit is a powerful motivator.I also assume projects on a slow basis, I do nothing FAST if I can avoid it and generally prefer slow and steady.  I can do too much damage to my accounts by rash action.More important - STOP PROCRASTINATING AND FINISH THE PROJECT!!!Many techs always love to have one or two things left to do - as insurance - before they consider a thing done.  Bad habit.  And that also affects invoice submission.I have learned the above habits the hard way.  Getting started is great, just DO IT and off you go.  &quot;Success is 90% showing up&quot; said Woody Allen.  So, show up.  And leave well and good, FINISH the damn thing and make sure it works.And your client will be content with your services and you will be a profitable consultant.See?  Easy.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:46:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Stop procrastinating and just get started]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-308258-3132262]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[While its worthy of its own number in your original list of 18 Maxims you included procrastination in #10]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JLar]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:50:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I know how you feel]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I can even tackle jobs that are really more difficult, but because they're not what I'm supposed to be doing, they're easy.So one approach I use is to imagine how fun my task would look to someone else, or even myself when I was much younger.  Then my project seems a lot more cool.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 09:57:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I wished, it were that easy.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I will do almost anything else then I should do but when I try to do what I should do then it is like standing in from of a wall.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 04:57:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My condolences]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Learning the .NET Framework is not as hard as it might seem.  If you just jump in and start, it will go a lot faster than you think.  Good luck!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sterling "chip" Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 11:47:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Stop procrastinating]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's all really just a state of mind.  If you set your mind that you're going to do something - then you will.  95% willpower - only 5% elbow grease.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 22:28:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Stop procrastinating and just get started]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for reminding me not to procrastinate. I have a Master Final Year Project that I drag to get it done. This is simply because I am not familiar with .Net and could not make up my mind to use .Net for my project. I must do my work as my mother just passed away on May 2nd. Recently, on Mother?s (May 10th), I recalled back how my mother wanted me to focus at getting my Master study done. I must do it despite a sense of not knowing how to do it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wengpingc]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:44:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Procrastination after starting]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That often happens when you run into a hurdle of some sort.  Perhaps you realize that a major section of code will need to be rewritten.  Then in your mind it becomes even bigger than it is, and you come to a halt.  That's when you have to re-apply the maxim and &quot;just get started&quot; all over again.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sterling "chip" Camden]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:55:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Procrastinating by reading about procrastination... there's a new angle.  Next time I need to procrastinate, perhaps I'll research synonyms for procrastination.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:53:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beyond that]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have learned, the hard way, that getting started is 70% of the job so if I just begin somewhere (either plan or research), I am moving down the line.  After all, at the end of the project is that delightful little thing called INVOICE and if you do not get started, nothing happens.  Just dig in dammit and see where your knowledge takes you.Procrastination ON the project can be a killer.  I have a brilliant co-consultant is one of the best at it I have ever seen.  Five months on one account doing a database conversion (critical) and he says not much is going on there.  OH REALLY???  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 04:01:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Stop procrastinating and just get started]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[this rule is simple but very efficient!i will add it to my list of maxims.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[zhangherry@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:09:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Chip, I love your articles, most of all because they hit the nail (me) right on the head...;-) Thanks for giving me one more alibi to procrastinate! This is how it works... I see this article and know you have written about procrastination quite a few times  So now I finally want to know what it is (I'm no native English person). Searching &quot;dictionary procrastination&quot; gives more than 211k entries, the first of which gives various definitions and some 22 related searches...So after procrastinating part of this monday-morning to oblivion I think I know what the word means...Hmmm, what again was it I was about to do...Thanks for sharing awareness!Jan]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 01:59:20 -0700</pubDate>
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