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  <title>CFC 2012: Don’t drive yourself crazy with quantity</title>
  <description>One of the most popular speakers from last year's Creative Freelancer Conference, Allen Murabayashi, CEO of PhotoShelter, will be back this year (June 21-22 in Boston -- early bird deadline is this Friday, March 30!).
Allen joined me for a podcast interview to preview his session, Building Your Prospect List: Quality vs. Quantity.
In our interview, we talked about the importance of qualifying prospects. Allen said:
You&amp;amp;rsquo;re going to drive yourself crazy if all you&amp;amp;rsquo;re trying to do it gets tons of people through the door. You have to simultaneously qualify your audience. For example, if you&amp;amp;rsquo;re Prada, and you&amp;amp;rsquo;re selling shoes for $500, you&amp;amp;rsquo;re not going to go to a suburban mall where nobody has discretionary income&amp;amp;mdash;and the most popular place there is Walmart.
You have to be very strategic in the way you spend your time. I was talking to a wedding photographer, and on their contact form, they say, &amp;amp;ldquo;How excited are you to work with us on a scale of 1-10?&amp;amp;rdquo; They told me they didn&amp;amp;rsquo;t respond to anything where it&amp;amp;rsquo;s less than an 8&amp;amp;mdash;as a pre-qualification mechanism.
Listen to our 8-minute interview to hear more.
Use your Big Ticket pass to catch this CFC session &amp;amp;ndash; or sign up for CFC on its own. If you aren&amp;amp;rsquo;t yet registered for CFC, sign up here and take advantage of the combo $100 discount: $50 early bird before Mar 30th + $50 Marketing Mentor discount with promo code &amp;amp;ldquo;CMM12&amp;amp;rdquo;</description>
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