A fussy and stingy customer

October 27th, 2006 at 11:33 · Filed Under At Work, Days in My Life 

I just finished calling a client a moment ago. The boss is a fussy and stingy man. He is experiencing frequent downtime at his web site and oftentimes his email service is out of service. He is furious because his customers are unable to contact him via his email.

I was introduced to him to help solving his problem couple weeks ago. I quoted him my web hosting packages which obviously are much cheaper than his current hosting service. In terms of dollars, my price is higher. He is complaining that I am quoting much higher price than his current hosting service. I explained to him about the bigger capacity of web space and the benefits of managed hosting service. He agreed with that but still insisted the price was too high.

I don’t know what to say anymore. Perhaps, I am not a good salesman when come to deal with people like this stingy man. I hate this whole process. Unfortunately, this is the business and I have to live with it. :(

It is tough to be on my own as a developer and a sales person. I enjoy developing more than sales.

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