>I say this as someone who had no problem getting jobs, but social anxiety made me desire the idealized notion of working in my home office and seldom conferring with people -- just delivering great solutions with every waking moment.
Same here.
>People love talking. Getting someone to commit to a sale is often just a brutal enterprise.
You just need to distinguish the types. The type that just loves talking is usually obsessed with self-importance and doesn't really care about the solved problems. You can talk them into a sale if you schmooze them good enough, but as a nerd you have a few chances. The type that appreciates great solutions doesn't care about chit-chat more than you do, but they are harder to reach because they are usually busy solving problems. There's a separate long story why the first type is better at forming hierarchies and obtaining political pull, but long story short, you need to focus your funnel on the second type. If the central part of your site is your smiling picture and a phone number, you'll attract the former. If it's a product trial, well-organized documentation and tutorials, the latter will be your catch.
Same here.
>People love talking. Getting someone to commit to a sale is often just a brutal enterprise.
You just need to distinguish the types. The type that just loves talking is usually obsessed with self-importance and doesn't really care about the solved problems. You can talk them into a sale if you schmooze them good enough, but as a nerd you have a few chances. The type that appreciates great solutions doesn't care about chit-chat more than you do, but they are harder to reach because they are usually busy solving problems. There's a separate long story why the first type is better at forming hierarchies and obtaining political pull, but long story short, you need to focus your funnel on the second type. If the central part of your site is your smiling picture and a phone number, you'll attract the former. If it's a product trial, well-organized documentation and tutorials, the latter will be your catch.