Comments on: Corporate Army Or One-Person Business http://outerlevel.com/blog/2005/12/19/corporate-army-or-one-person-business/ Building a MicroISV Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jon Trainer http://outerlevel.com/blog/2005/12/19/corporate-army-or-one-person-business/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Jon Trainer Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:15:04 +0000 http://www.outerlevel.com/blog/?p=30#comment-44 Yaro, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment... and congrats on your purchase of "Small Business Branding". Yaro, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment… and congrats on your purchase of “Small Business Branding”.

]]> By: Yaro http://outerlevel.com/blog/2005/12/19/corporate-army-or-one-person-business/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Yaro Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:55:37 +0000 http://www.outerlevel.com/blog/?p=30#comment-43 Hi Jon, thanks for mentioning my article. It's amazing how many blogs are out there that you never know about until they ping you. Keep up the blogging! Cheers, Yaro Hi Jon, thanks for mentioning my article. It’s amazing how many blogs are out there that you never know about until they ping you. Keep up the blogging! Cheers, Yaro

]]> By: Jon Trainer http://outerlevel.com/blog/2005/12/19/corporate-army-or-one-person-business/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Jon Trainer Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:01:15 +0000 http://www.outerlevel.com/blog/?p=30#comment-42 Thanks for commenting, Mike. It's all easier said than done, for me at least. I find that I still have the tendency to use "we" sometimes. It doesn't take much effort to find the word "we" on my company's site. Thanks for commenting, Mike.

It’s all easier said than done, for me at least. I find that I still have the tendency to use “we” sometimes. It doesn’t take much effort to find the word “we” on my company’s site.

]]> By: Mike Rohde http://outerlevel.com/blog/2005/12/19/corporate-army-or-one-person-business/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Mike Rohde Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:41:08 +0000 http://www.outerlevel.com/blog/?p=30#comment-41 Jon, I agree about being real when it comes to describing staff. What worse thing could happen then a client ask you about your other team members, when you haven't any? :-) I suppose calling a firm a "group" or "team" if you regularly work in collaboration with a constant team of people is accurate. If you are constantly working with the same crew (more or less) then in many senses this is your team, whether they work directly for/with you or not. But if one always works alone and uses "we" that's much fuzzier, and I think not worth the effort to appear bigger, when it may be no big deal at all. You are right about being chosen for skills, expertise and results — that seems a key item when clients choose you over someone else. Jon, I agree about being real when it comes to describing staff. What worse thing could happen then a client ask you about your other team members, when you haven’t any? :-)

I suppose calling a firm a “group” or “team” if you regularly work in collaboration with a constant team of people is accurate. If you are constantly working with the same crew (more or less) then in many senses this is your team, whether they work directly for/with you or not.

But if one always works alone and uses “we” that’s much fuzzier, and I think not worth the effort to appear bigger, when it may be no big deal at all.

You are right about being chosen for skills, expertise and results — that seems a key item when clients choose you over someone else.

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