Awright... WHo wants to Represent My services?
 

Lets see...

I have been advised to find someone to work with me and promote my design services.

I would like someone that:

A: Is Patient
B: Does not think Creating Awesome designs can be done over night.
C: Believes good design should have appropriate pricing.
D: Has experience in the business or at least the contacts to get things moving.

I am willing to part with a portion of the money made. Percentage or flat rate on each project.

I am willing to shut my mouth on boards, give you the breathing room you need. Many tell me I got awesome skill and a good talent to create converting sites and its my self destructive mouth that loses me business ( Which probably true, but then again I have yet to find generous clients that supposedly reside on every corner of this industry that have the budget to afford what they can pay for )

I am willing to design an entire new site on your domain. No one will know its me doing the design if thats the way you want it.

I am open to any suggestions you might have.

I want to make money in this business but selling myself on the boards just does not work.

So throw down something and I will contact you if I think you got the skills to promote my services properly.

just a suggestion
you do the designs, and he handles all the contact/sales/support, with out anyone knowing that hes in bed with you.

a couple people said you do decent design, but your board melt downs scare potential clients here, and a lot of people read/post here who would want to use your service.

don't do it Alien


GFY needs you :2 cents:

so what you are needing is middle man with good advertising knowledge.

Purely professional insight here.

You shouldn't have to part with any of the money. You should still make the same amount as you used to. Raise your prices to pay your lead generation personnel.

That way you don't see any money disappearing and you won't feel like you are giving up a part of "your" money.

If you have someone here for you, you don't have to be here where your mouth has sometimes gotten you in trouble, AND you will be able to accomplish that much more, and deliver products faster because GFY won't be holding you back.

I spend 1/10th of the time here that I used to. It shows in many areas.

I think you also would benefit more from focusing on what you do well, which is design shit. I've never seen you get into something that didn't end up being a full blown war with someone, and ultimately hurting the way people perceive you and their thoughts on your professionalism. I'm no one to talk, I just have picked my battles a little more carefully. Your board meltdowns scare people.

I think you're making a great move.

:2 cents:

:2 cents:

Good luck AlienQ! :thumbsup

Best of luck Alien :)

There's just so many people who could benefit from someone doing the PR for them :-/ hopefully you find someone suitable ;)

AlienQ you don't have to change your posting habits. Just don't talk to a client as a designer ever and complete projects on time how your manager and the client wants not how you feel it should be.

The problem here is someone is going to have to deal with you and your crazyness.. Who would want to take that on?

You should team up with Zuzanna. :)

Soo many freaking designers it's unbelievable. Every single one of them pirated Photoshop too.

I like your stuff, always have

Please stop giving bad advice.

The whole point is to get AlienQ out of the public eye because whether he, or you, or anyone likes it... he's lost potential business because of the things he says.

Might be a lot, might not be... but people have gone elsewhere for designs when they might have hired him had he of not said certain things.

AlienQ and Jon Clark would be an unstoppable force.

Good luck with the search.

It's true. I admit it.

To much of what I say on the boards is taken seriously. Half the time I am joking sometimes I am not. It just goes to prove just how fucking retarded all you people are.

Making business decisions over someones skills that can really help sell what ever it is they are pushing. I put alot on the table in experience for a business and in my opinion when I do something and the project is launched the project goes well. Its not just my design mind you but good design helps and I know I have skills in that department.

Very few of my tours fail and it is a fact my work increases ratio's despite what the dipshits say about me.

I'm sure Jon Clark is interested.

Already tried him a while back.

It Didnt work out and I will leave it at that. Hopefully his new business will go well for him.

Good luck with that.

Not surprising to find out you two working together ended up in failure.

Believe it or not I give everyone I meet the benefit of the doubt and an equal opportunity on all levels. Respect me and I will respect you. Jon was pretty stressed at the time and so was I.

No hard feelings over the matter.

What sort of mainstream portfolio do you have? Lots of money to be made there these days.

obviously not. i respect you, yet you tell me to "fuck you"

maybe you should say. "think like me and i will like you" instead.

cuz that was bullshit for you to tell me to go fuck myself when i chose you as a designer to help you when i had 3 other people that would have done the job, for less even.

see alien, you just dont get it sometimes. your attitude fucks things up for you.

had a giant order i was going to ask you about early next week, and then an hour ago you shoot your mouth off at me over my thoughts on advertising on tubes.

you can't do both.

Pretty much a case of "Don't shit where you eat".

NO man...
I just know where you sit on things now is all. You are going to sit and justify other people taking this industry lower than it needs to go. Get on to Cheerleading the next major industry pinch that will sink this whole fucker a few more steps down. I am rather surprised that you would side with ignoring issues that happen in this business just to get taken advantage of later all the while painting yourself as some vigilanti that tried to stop Copyright theft.

Copyright theft is bad MMk? GOod stand right? Then when the heat came on you pussed out and called it quits and no one cares.
Then lets boot to the present. Encouraging and siding with companies that reward content thieves...

Its sickening and your best suggestion tot he situation is to stick your fucking head in the sand? Did ya know thats nothing more than spinner talk? Or how about spinner talk by saying shit like "Yeah its a business decision". Dude fuck you. You sound like a talking head thats on the take at this point.

Jesus fucking christ man, if you can not see why you wouldnt deserve a fuck you I really can not help you. You may not like what I say but I will tell you what I think whether you like it or not. Its the least I could do.

Nice of you to be all" OH I got a project for you but uhh uhh you said this.."
Dude fuck you again.

No man. Not true. I don't justify anything. If you remember correctly I dedicated my life to bitchslapping them. Let me ask you this.

How long do you play football on a sandlot with the other kids throwing gravel in your face to get ahead in the game before you do it to to get ahead and compete with them on their field?

So, from someone who is NOT serviced based, to someone who is, FUCK YOU!

Adjust your perspective Alien. I now believe you need meds. I used to defend you on that. That has now expired.

By the way, "pussy" is the wrong word. I "visioned" out. Too bad you can't see it.

If he wowed people with his work his political rants would be no problem..

He just needs to stop talking about "the industry".

He's definitely lost business. I talk to damn near anyone and everyone that will talk to me. He's lost potential work from me. I have 5 clients now who all need design services. You think I will give him more work? I lobby for him when other designers were the choice of someone else involved in some of the projects I was a part of. Just the work he has lost from me could be thousands of dollars. Every job doesn't warrant Dickman's Design. There are lots of jobs that are Alien level. He can blast me all he wants and say how it doesn't matter. People have brains, they can decipher the codes for themselves. If Alien doesn't want to believe that his manic meltdowns don't affect his service based business I can't help him.

hmmmm good luck on this

if you would have started in the first place with this plan, it would have had some % on succeeding.

See, further proof that you really need someone to do the talking for you.

You can't just lose one potential client, you have to try to lose "all you people".

Anybody who doesn't do business with someone because of there board antics is a fool. I don't like some of the gfy's personalities but I'm not going to hurt my own business because I don't like what this person says sometimes. Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one. If AQ has the best design service that's going to help convert surfers into members then use that assholes service. Who give a flying rats ass what they spew on a message board. Doesn't mean shit.

Money over bullshit.

Let me break it down for you Martin. You're an intelligent guy and I enjoy your posts.

Here's the thing. Alien is in a category where there are tons and tons of qualified designers. If someone is a prick like p1mpdogg on the boards and can back up a deal I do with him off the boards, that is all good. I look past that. It has to do with the position you play and every position has so many players. There are only so many program owners, as an example. However, designers are coming out the wazoo.

The way I see it, if Alien doesn't like my views on something and wants to verbally assault me for them, then well, why would I give him work? So he can be in the middle of the job I hired him to do he can meltdown on me and cause issues mid project? It's easier for a project manager/business owner like me to go elsewhere and avoid the hassle. There's nothing Alien does that someone else can't do for me, so I will avoid the possibility of confrontation by default.

He doesn't give a shit. He will tell you. He's rich, he doesn't need my money, or my clients money when we do design jobs. He'll tell you. He has so much work that he doesn't need a few piddly thousand dollars.

I like him, but fuck all if this guy is gonna tell me to fuck myself when I can see the trends and the industry move and he can't. Piss on that.

Anyway, just wanted to clarify that for you. Keep on making sense, because you really do, I just wanted to tell you WHY this hurts Alien when he does bullshit like this.

Sorry if I'm ignorant.

My one question is - gimme some gold. Show me some sites. Gimme some URLs...

:D

Oh and some T&A if you can...

this thread is a perfect example of the normal AlienQ

Good luck...

"I like him, but fuck all if this guy is gonna tell me to fuck myself when I can see the trends and the industry move and he can't. Piss on that."

Aerik all I see is you bragging that I do not know anything, my views on the industry are uhh Opaque. But one thing that is clear as day is you singing right along with the "Trends" that are no good for this industry.

You used to stand for something right, but you have just walked into the fold of dick wad's that abuse this industry.

You claim you know so much about the business and in touch yet I know nothing. I think you need a reality check. Sorry to snap you out of the delusion that you are some sort of leet SEO guy. Sorry I do not think you are one tiny fucking bit because if you were you would have the money to get what ever you want and not leech on companies telling them lies.

So in short you are just another dime a dozen wannabee self proclaimed SEO expert on the take. I done SERPS on some of your shit you hardly rank for nothing next to typins. Did you forget that I am so nuts I watch almost everything I can in the biz? I know shit that will peel your fucking eyes out the back of your head.

Designers might be a dime a dozen but hey at least I am good at what I do.

And I do not need spam lists to fake it.

Yah I agree with you. He can't be talking to people that could be giving him work in a way that is rude or insulting.

hi AlienQ, I think we are interesting in your offer, get me a hit on my ICQ so we could talk about that option to make business with you!!!!


Cheers,

I still want to know how AlienQ pays the bills. He's going to have to pull his shit together eventually.

I got CSS down now, I know more than I did when I started. Dont worry about me.
I manage to pay my bills barely it aint easy but I do it.
Check my sig, wanna buy some content?