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Old 05-14-2005, 09:30 PM  
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Originally Posted by Odin88
Yeah, it's very hard when you need to hire someone to help you run it though. I've had to do it in the past, and I've done my best to make sure they know as little as possible about the project I am working with. I will say though, and no offence to Gene, when I talked to him some time ago about hiring someone, he was more interested in where the traffic was coming from and how I was converting it, than what I needed one of his people to do. Like I said, no offence at all he seems like a decent guy, and I don't really blame him, I just didn't feel a good level of trust.
Odin, you're a good guy and we've known each other a bit. In fact, you did an article that I requested for justtraffic.blogspot.com re reffy. Sorry if you feel like you can't trust me but as you can see from my past work, we've gone out of our way to produce quality work.

I think this issue is endemic to any situation where you are going to a thirdparty re work that you need done. The issues in play are:

1) what if another client comes to the service provider asking for the same service, what then? refuse everyone except the first guy? Wouldn't this have disastrous consequences?

2) ideas and near-ideas. I think this has been discussed earlier in this thread.

Other than that, its a question of trust. I make my clients MONEY. They point, we execute. If you feel you can't trust a service provider because it means you'll be sharing info, either subscribe to their confidentiality provisions/practices or do it yourself.
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