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Originally Posted by larrymcg421
Damnit, how do I get in on this?
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Just know the right people
Seriously though, how is this really different from most businesses? Do we not virtually all prefer to work with people that we know & trust when the opportunity arises? I've got a go-to set of preferred options for everything from voiceover work to photography to video production to editing, if we can make the math work for everyone then those people work on my projects time & again. Over enough time, some of them become friends in addition to suppliers of services.
By the same token, I've gotten advertising work where I was selected to do X because the person making the choice knew me in some non-advertising context.
Now, if you hired me to paint your house despite a high bid & no experience then, yeah, that'd look pretty weird. (a scenario similar to what comes up with political stuff occasionally). You shouldn't be surprised if your house looks pretty poorly painted when I'm finished either.
But within someone's skill set why is there some sort of (apparent) brouhaha over people picking someone they know over rank strangers?