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Poll: How do you prefer your clients to contact you?
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Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
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wasting time on skype and other chat tools Oct 10, 2009

Skype can be a waste of time, if who calls you is on fixed wages and can waste all the time he/she fancies, taking so many msgs to get to the point. This is typical of too many Italian agencies (which are 60% of my clients). Also, I must immediately drop whatever I was doing to see what they want and, more often than not, it is a question that I could easily (and better) deal with within an hour, if ever. Whereas one can quickly see what any received email is about and answered it (if and) when ... See more
Skype can be a waste of time, if who calls you is on fixed wages and can waste all the time he/she fancies, taking so many msgs to get to the point. This is typical of too many Italian agencies (which are 60% of my clients). Also, I must immediately drop whatever I was doing to see what they want and, more often than not, it is a question that I could easily (and better) deal with within an hour, if ever. Whereas one can quickly see what any received email is about and answered it (if and) when appropriate. Not to mention the growing amount of spam and phishing one gets through Skype (Ghanaian girls asking for money etc., but are they all really Ghanians?) ▲ Collapse
 
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