Ok, so what did people get for Christmas?

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Bad news from several of my customers, which has had the effect of
forcing me to sell my airplane & my car . Anyone want a 1968 PA-28-180
or a 1999 BMW M3?

Dang, Aaron -- several customers can hurt business enough to make you sell
your airplane?

These must've been some awesome customers!

I've had years where more than 80% of my income came from *1* customer
-- probably around a dozen of them. Low-end retail has *lots* of
customers, high-end retail has fewer, and contract software
development tends to have *very* few -- particularly for a one-person
outfit. Because one person simply can't do that many things at once.
Dunno what Aaron does, but I've known a lot of people dependent on
fairly few customers in various fields.

(And Aaron, best of luck! Hope you find some new customers quick.)
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Jay Honeck wrote:

: Dang, Aaron -- several customers can hurt business enough to make you sell
: your airplane?

: These must've been some awesome customers!

The cycle time for my customers is a minimum of 6 months, sometimes 18 months.
We have one contract we've been trying to get finalized since May 2004.

My company designs & builds esoteric diagnostic, monitoring, and control
equipment for the public utility sector; we also do contract R+D, contract
software development, and contract hardware development, generally for the
same area. Come see us at Distributech 2006 in Tampa!

--
Aaron C.

Darrel Toepfer wrote:
: http://www.psinteg.net/n9376j.html

: Nice, these links are broken:
: http://66.189.35.34/n9376j/int-2.jpg
: http://66.189.35.34/n9376j/mans.jpg

Fixed. GoDaddy's @!%&^$# redirects are still not showing www.psinteg.net.
--
Aaron C.

Jay Honeck wrote:

Dang, Aaron -- several customers can hurt business enough to make you sell
your airplane?

These must've been some awesome customers!

My former employer had a total of 7 customers in 1990. Only 4 of those were
funding new products. Things got worse as time went on.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

"Montblack" wrote in message
We got another cow ...donated in our name. That's two cows in two
years. Is that a herd yet? I'm calling it a herd!

("john smith" wrote)
Sorry, you have to have one bull and one cow to start a herd.

I've got plenty of bull.... :-)
Montblack
Hope the herd's ok tonight.

Nowadays you just get the bull in a bottle. Cuts way down on the overhead.

I forgot about that, and one of my fellow scouter's works for a company
that sells the stuff.

Bob Noel wrote:
subject says it all


Laid.

subject says it all

("Otis Winslow" wrote)
Laid.


For weeks you were looking 'under' the bed for your present.

I think Chanukah is just the ticket for you.
http://www.holidays.net/chanukah/


Montblack

Otis Winslow wrote:

Laid.

Wow! Must be nice to go to Hawaii for the holidays

Ah, the gift that keeps on giving (as I try to keep my 14 month old off the
keyboard...)

"Otis Winslow" wrote in message
...
Bob Noel wrote:
subject says it all


Laid.