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Not sure when it changes, but the usual explanation (by Americans themselves) of this US-only remote thing is that they afraid of dealing with the people who ar

by zerr 13y ago

Not sure when it changes, but the usual explanation (by Americans themselves) of this US-only remote thing is that they afraid of dealing with the people who are not easily suable.

leknarf 13y ago
In our case, the explanation is even simpler. Most of our work is for local devs, where the clients prefer to be able to meet the freelancer face-to-face occasionally. Even for a project where most of the work will be done remotely, kick-off meetings and in-person collaboration is still valuable.
- zerr 13y ago
  Of course it is valuable, but why limit the choices a priori? Let your clients choose by themselves, maybe some of them will prefer to sacrifice face-to-face meetings in exchange for finding the best candidate...
  - bonemachine 13y ago
    In general, with marketing, you need to keep your Message simple. As in drop-dead simple. Especially when you're veyr small. That's why you see food trucks offering tacos, sushi, or organic chocolate-and-truffle-oil-suffused hempseed brownies, respectively... but food trucks offering all 3 of these, not so often. With recruiting it's kind of the same. Also, out-of-towners have different filtering / recommendation / communication needs, and take different payscales, also So they're probably just applying the 80-20 rule, and catering to what their known client base seems to ask for most.
  - bonemachine 13y ago
    In general, with marketing, you need to keep your Message simple. As in drop-dead simple. Especially when you're very small. That's why you see food trucks offering tacos, sushi, or organic chocolate-and-truffle-oil-suffused hempseed brownies, respectively... but food trucks offering all 3 of these, not so often. With recruiting it's kind of the same. Also, out-of-towners have different filtering / recommendation / communication needs, and take different payscales, also So they're probably just applying the 80-20 rule, and catering to what their known client base seems to ask for most.

by zerr 13y ago

Not sure when it changes, but the usual explanation (by Americans themselves) of this US-only remote thing is that they afraid of dealing with the people who are not easily suable.

leknarf 13y ago

In our case, the explanation is even simpler. Most of our work is for local devs, where the clients prefer to be able to meet the freelancer face-to-face occasionally. Even for a project where most of the work will be done remotely, kick-off meetings and in-person collaboration is still valuable.

zerr 13y ago
Of course it is valuable, but why limit the choices a priori? Let your clients choose by themselves, maybe some of them will prefer to sacrifice face-to-face meetings in exchange for finding the best candidate...
- bonemachine 13y ago
  In general, with marketing, you need to keep your Message simple. As in drop-dead simple. Especially when you're veyr small. That's why you see food trucks offering tacos, sushi, or organic chocolate-and-truffle-oil-suffused hempseed brownies, respectively... but food trucks offering all 3 of these, not so often. With recruiting it's kind of the same. Also, out-of-towners have different filtering / recommendation / communication needs, and take different payscales, also So they're probably just applying the 80-20 rule, and catering to what their known client base seems to ask for most.
- bonemachine 13y ago
  In general, with marketing, you need to keep your Message simple. As in drop-dead simple. Especially when you're very small. That's why you see food trucks offering tacos, sushi, or organic chocolate-and-truffle-oil-suffused hempseed brownies, respectively... but food trucks offering all 3 of these, not so often. With recruiting it's kind of the same. Also, out-of-towners have different filtering / recommendation / communication needs, and take different payscales, also So they're probably just applying the 80-20 rule, and catering to what their known client base seems to ask for most.