I can understand that. Back when I was consulting, in the dark ages before email, it was somewhat more involved and usually more expensive to prepare a response to someone’s inquiry.

I guess we can deal with frustrating, now and then.

Act on your dream!

JD

It’s hard to qualify someone when it’s an email request. I need to try to get phone numbers and hopefully talk to someone before I continue doing this type of thing, because you’re right, it is a waste of time, although I have to admit it’s not that big a waste of time because I just have to modify my template and move on. Let’s go with it being more frustrating than anything else.
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You bring up a great point about disrespect. I remember when I was a consultant and someone would want a proposal or would set a meeting to talk about something.

I’d spend time preparing and much of the time it would be for nothing.

Eventually, I learned how to qualify someone before I invested much time and energy.

Unless they were the decision maker, had available money or budget, and demonstrated a real interest in working with me, I would not take the appointment or send the proposal.

It may have cost me a gig here and there, but I believe it saved me much more time and energy to devote to better prospects.

I learned that anyone who would not show up for two meetings would be a pain to work for, anyway, so I chose to work with people who recognized and respected the fact that I was a wizard.

I hadn’t thought about that in a long time.

All the best,

JD

For instance, people write me all the time and ask me to give them proposals for projects. I send them, then never hear back. I think that’s disingenuous, but what can you do?

Disrespect comes in the form of setting time aside for someone and having them not show up or not call, which means they’ve wasted your time more than once.

I think honesty stands on its own terms.
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