On Aug 10, 2005, at 5:02 AM, JamesDR wrote:
Loren Wilton wrote:
My $.02 here...
Why doesn't he put together a nice presentation package and mail it
to
them? I think I know the real reason -- it costs money. It could be
argued that sending an email costs money, but hardly the cost of
putting
together a decent presentation on a few sheets of flashy/nice paper
and
mailing it to prospective customers. This is a higher cost to the
sender
Just to play devil's advocate here for a moment: what if his business
is
website design? What would YOU think of getting a snail mail from
someone
claiming to be a genius website whiz? What *I* would think (if I even
opened junk paper mail, which I don't) is "this guy claims to be a
web whiz
and he doesn't even know about email? I'm going to give this guy my
business? I don't *think* so!"
And into the roundfile it would go.
Loren
True, he didn't specify what was being advertised, so it could be
anything. For arguments sake, I was thinking along the lines of
something that provided a product / service outside that of
hosting/web design. Tho the issue still remains, if his prospective
clients didn't ask to be sent info, by UCE's terms, it's spam.
And, personally, if I got a snail mail from a web designer, and it
opened with "In order to avoid sending you spam, I'm sending you a
one-time snail-mail flyer", I would actually respect that level of
consideration and 'out of the box' thinking. I would be MORE likely to
go look up their portfolio and consider their services, than if they
had spammed me.
The idea that I should be less interested in them just because they
didn't email me seems to be ... rather limited thinking.
For one, if they're a decent graphic designer, their flyer will be laid
out as well as their web pages. If they're not a decent enough graphic
designer to do a decent flyer layout, why do I want them working on my
web page?
