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Mercedes/Berk is an exclusive private real estate brokerage, catering to buyers and sellers of luxury properties in Manhattan and the Hamptons on a global platform. The M/B team works together to tailor a personalized plan to meet each client’s specific needs and objectives, using our team members’ unique expertise, talent, and passion to help sellers realize the full value potential of their home and buyers find the property that meets their personal and financial expectations.

We were lucky enough work with Mercedes/Berk to create a site that fits so many of their needs.

We first tackled creating multiple post types for the different content; we then created multiple taxonomies to provide relationships between properties, buildings, neighborhoods, agents and more; finally we worked on their theme to match their brand. The final package is something all parties are incredibly satisfied with.

About the book…

The e-book, Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989, is both a photo journal and a grunge rock microhistory – an
 inside look into a crucial eight-day period in the touring life of Nirvana, and two other Seattle bands, as seen through the eyes of Bruce Pavitt, the founder of Sub Pop, the Seattle label that first signed Nirvana in 1988.

The dramatic eight days covered in this book, from November 27 through December 4, 1989, represent a turning point for Nirvana. In this brief period, the young band goes from breaking up in Rome to winning over the influential music press in London at Sub Pop’s LameFest UK showcase, setting the stage for their imminent popularity.

Group Buying Site (GBS) offers premium WordPress themes and plugins to run your very own online daily deals website like Groupon or LivingSocial. We take great pride in the quality of our products and services to ensure that our software contains well-written code, that our designs are intuitive, and that customer service is top notch.

GBS makes it easy for you to get your very own online group buying business up and running in just a few hours. We leverage the power of WordPress as a content management system to allow GBS owners the ability to easily create and manage their daily deals through a user-friendly interface. Furthermore, because WordPress is so easy to use and intuitively designed, almost anyone can operate and deploy their own daily deals site using our GBS plugin/theme. Simply install our GBS plugin/theme, configure your theme’s/plugin’s options, create some deals, and launch your site.
GBS is the originator of the premium Group Buying Plugin and Group Buying Theme for WordPress. Some people may refer to it as the Groupon of WordPress. Our goal for GBS is to manufacture an easy to use collective buying system so that businesses and individuals can operate their own daily deals website. WordPress offers a well established and ever growing community of business owners that are always looking for new opportunities to monetize their websites. For them and many other aspiring entrepreneurs, GBS and WordPress are a perfect match. In contrast to shilling out thousands of dollars for software, or partnering with group buying platforms that take a majority of all your sales, why not launch your own group buying site using our out-of-the-box daily deals solution today?

If you have any questions regarding GBS and its line of products, see our frequently asked questions (FAQ) page.

Read more about the Group Buying Site plugin for WordPress at groupbuyingsite.com.

Be nice, explain to them that it’s not within the current set of deliverables and it requires additional development time.

I think we ( as freelancers ) fall into the trap of considering every client is looking to shake you down. Of course, as freelancers/contractors we will always run into the client that intentionally makes the phase vague enough to inject added functionality later in order to get it free; your contract should be good enough to set the expectations clearly, stand strong with the deliverables you agreed to ( if this is an ongoing issue you need to review your contractual process, specifically your requirements definition and scoping. As well as improving your ability to spot a bad client ). Your contract is your control over the project don’t forget that.

Again, the boundaries are already set, that’s why you have a contract, re-enforcing the contractual boundaries by saying an item is “out of scope” can only be perceived as an unwillingness to add to the current version or even worse work with them on a future release. So stop worrying and start selling with confidence.

Sell yourself.

Try to sell when your working with a client, instead of saying “out of scope”, say something like, “since this/feature/item is not included within this phase’s deliverables we could either add it to a future version or add it to this release if it’s a requirement. Including it in this phase will require … “, then talk about how it may affect deadlines and costs. That’s not the only approach, if you’re in a flat rate project with a strict budget talk about dropping a low priority feature to include this new one; I love this because I have the opportunity to drop one of the more complex features that have little return for the client.

Shane and Eric have it right on, ask the client how to proceed instead of shutting them down and putting them on the defense.

In a nutshell, be nice and know your place on a project.

Approach:

• Membership capability with subscriptions and single item purchase capability
• Customized login, registration and password recovery: taking out the WordPress hoops for a memberships
• On-site purchase with Paypal Payments Pro integration and Paypal offsite purchase
• Promo code capability
• Purchase Tracking for promotions, single item purchase and subscriptions
• WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Types
• Custom Post Type queries/search
• Easy administration with a workout builder for front end post creation
• WordPress 3.0 Custom Menu Management
• Member preferences to deliver the workouts immediately on login
• Future workout notes capabilites
• Social network integration
• Print CSS for workouts
• CSS3 styles

A simple site delivered with custom WordPress plugins and a WordPress theme.

With plugin modifications we support the original developer by submitting patches to the original plugin, instead of forking out a new plugin and blocking the client from future upgrades.

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