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hile so far the points and aspects of working
Windependently for customers over the web, remotely
or on-site, regardless of their independent or affiliated
status, has pretty much remained cut-and-dried and stuck
to the basic tenets of better business building, there is a
final aspect which we seldom consider in our dealings for
dollars.

The personal, if you will.

This might be because we are so used to dealing with
the large, corporate constructs of our banks and ISPs,
phones and utilities, and all manner of the greater service
infrastructure that surrounds us and penetrates us and
binds the galaxy together.

While, with many of these titanic entities, dealings with
we humans are bone-dry pay-or-don’t-play interactions,
we humans don’t necessarily have to be that way toward
each other.

While it happens that certain support and account
representatives at big companies are genuine, friendly
and enjoyable to deal with over the phone or across a
counter (often with a grilled plexi between you), they’re
still tightening the tourniquet, turning the screw and
phlobotomizing you with a smile as you smile right back.

Those are the good ones. Those who seem to be
enjoying or, worse, have no feelings about it whatsoever
are probably the reason so many people agree to terms of
final collection angrily and hurriedly and turn their backs
on these passive pillagers only to end up skipping billings
and payments and obligations and end up in receivership
Getting Paid
or worse.
The motivation seems to be: if you want to treat me like
a machine I will react mechanically.

However, the inexorable, insensate collective behind sales as an Indy
people, collectors, managers and executives in our dealings
can be intimidating enough and effective in the extreme,
seemingly against our wills, because we need them to (Part Three):
in making us feel resistance is futile in terminating unfair
deals, securing and perpetuating business relationships,

survive, and that turning to a “competitor” would be equally
We Are All
disheartening and irrelevant.

And some independent or small-business people and
service providers like to think that in order to achieve
Agent Smith
similar success as the king conglomerates they must in
their comportment and attitude be equally unyielding. In
other words, assholes.

And that is where a key factor in understanding business
between independent contractor and customer, between

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