Hi webmasters, accidentally this video was suggested to me by the YT algorithm. It was painful to watch, I don't know if any of you will watch it till the end (I did), because I wanted to open this thread.
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The video is the actual conference given by Pablo Stanley, giving advice on how to behave in business and around clients. It covers:
- Distract
- Confusing the clients using jargon
- Not needing to know what you are doing, just pretend
- Paint yourself as someone successful and busy
- Learn from the best, meaning: COPY other people work
- Take reviews personal: attacking people, disregarding their authority, aim to their persona or technology
- Avoid talking about the problem/situation, instead go around and around
- Use plugins, fill your mockups with names
- Fake products to make things look real
It ends with LEADERSHIP, talking about being confident on sailing. Not knowing what to do or where to go, etc: it doesn't matter, some people will follow because "they need a leader". If people question you then say they don't understand your leadership, leaders lead by intuition.
You will fail because the boat has holes, failing is not bad because you have a vest (you must have one)
BECAUSE you intended to go down all along. Failing will be useful to tell stories of how daring you are and how much you learned in the process of failing. And people will applaud, you are not afraid to fail, such a great leader, and you will be invited to conferences.
It doesn't matter: if you fake it... you will make it.
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The previous has been discussed as an issue in the industry of design and coding (webmaster) for some years, and I know I have seen it, sadly on a large company where tons of money were lost, paid to people who didn't know what they were doing. The amount of money was big, huge. Some meetings where the freelancers were involved revealed jokes about how silly and stupid people are buying stuff. The sad part is to finish the job: the permanent in house team was forced to do it and deliver. This is not just one story, I've seen it happening over and over.
Wanna know something? one of them infiltrated and created a web hosted in the US with pictures of the meetings with everyone drunk making fun of the clients (including the large company), the guy included screenshots of mail and text messaging of the evil plans. He was one of them, we don't know what happened and why he decided to uncover the operations. This happened years ago and later all the team was fired (the in house team) along with the freelancers but sadly... after getting paid large amounts of money.
The original story and conference above matches the case of (I don't know if I can post the name here), EA, the founder of a set of websites who for long time take the job of copying and stealing content. He even wrote about copypasta, also faced issues in the webreal for stealing, yet the sites continued and surprisingly was invited (with all expenses paid) to my country to give a long talk. Many didn't know about his bad practices, only knew about his websites (those didn't read engadget, gizmodo or wired because they don't know english) and the business owners were the worst case, they were waiting for him.
When his talk started he confessed: I don't know what to say, came here yesterday and didn't prepare a single line or material, that's why there is no visual presentation (laughs...) and then says "let's see, what can we talk about? do you have any questions?" and the talk went along in autopilot. Never imagined to witness someone stealing and getting invited (and paid) for it, with all travel expenses paid.
I have tons of stories about the same scenarios, some are fresh. My curiosity is... is it worth it to discuss here how to deal with that kind of thing? the forum is kinda... you know nowadays. Made my share of sites and money in this industry and then moved along because I got bored of this kind of thing (along with other things). Recently I had to do some work and I know... I love coding... can't help it, with time it will go away (the feeling) but suddenly after watching this conference I wonder if my experience on the web and coding just exceeded what I took for granted as business experience, perhaps this could be discussed on a coding-forum or perhaps on a variety business forum (not strictly related to coding or building websites).
I'll leave it here.
