Andy Milk Interactive

I recently made the acquaintance of a designer through a project we were both working on.  After checking out her work, I saw that her style might match up very well with a couple projects that I had coming up that needed design help.  I proposed her work to my clients, who obliged, and then proposed the work to her.  In her email response, not only did she response in the affirmative for helping on the projects, but she offered me a small programming project that she needed help on.

I didn’t intend to get any work out of our interaction, but I learned a valuable lesson through it.  Offer some work to people and they might just offer it back! Sure, it’s usually luck or good timing that creates a situation like this, but it’s also good business, a little tit-for-tat, and the kind of offer that strengthens relationships with your colleagues, clients, and subcontractors.