106. Oh Where, Oh Where Has My $100K Gone? Oh Where, Oh Where Can It Be?

About two years into my career, I was hired by a direct marketing agency. It was the mid-nineties, and I was the small company’s only “web guy.” There weren’t many “web guys” in existence at the time. The company was affiliated with a private school conglomerate, and many of the projects we did were for those institutions.

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I single-handedly project managed, designed, and programmed many of the websites the agency landed. I operated as what I thought to be a one-man show. On one occasion, I found out that the agency was charging the client $22,000 for the website I was creating. ...

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