Business means professionalism

I advertised for a webmastering service at DigitalPoint tonight.

Someone responded to offer their services.

The problem is, I’d already offered this same person similar work recently, but they had simply walked away from the project without telling me.

That small act of unprofessionalism just lost them a longer term contract.

We all forget things and overlook things, but if your offered work doing something, and accept, only to walk away without informing the person who hired you, it’s only natural that it will make a bad impression.

If you can’t handle the work, communication is not simply polite but a professional requirement.

If this person had only said the previous work was too much for them, I may have yet taken them on again for different work.

Because they didn’t even take the time to compose that single short email, they’ve lost a potentially more lucrative contract for good.

On the internet, it’s easy to start up a business. But without a professional attitude, it’s much easier to lose work that get it.

2c.