{"id":528,"date":"2009-06-09T22:36:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T04:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/000528"},"modified":"2009-06-09T22:36:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T04:36:47","slug":"best-consulting-sales-pitch-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/528","title":{"rendered":"Best Consulting Sales Pitch Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this at a presentation about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mulesource.org\/\">Mule<\/a> (an enterprise service bus) at BJUG tonight.\u00a0 The presenter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rich-software.com\/main\/\">Rich Remington<\/a>, at the end of the talk, put up a slide detailing a contest.\u00a0 Anyone who emailed him with a use case that Mule might be able to help with won a chance at a free lunch and 1-2 hours of free consulting about the use case. You have to email him within 48 hours of the talk.<br \/>\nWhat a great idea!\u00a0 Not only does he get to pick a use case that Mule can help with, he also gets a chance to pitch his services, and show his value to the client.\u00a0 And he gets a list of possible clients&#8211;people who know about something about Mule and think they might have a problem Mule can solve.<\/p>\n<p>The contest winner gets more than a free lunch out of it too&#8211;the chance to pick an expert&#8217;s brain for free for a couple of hours can be worth quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Win-win, for sure.\u00a0 What a great idea for anyone consulting in a specialized field!<\/p>\n<p>[tags]mule,rsi[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this at a presentation about Mule (an enterprise service bus) at BJUG tonight.\u00a0 The presenter, Rich Remington, at the end of the talk, put up a slide detailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bjug","category-business","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}