From: "John Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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?
Nobody reads the credits anymore. They walk out of movies when the
credits roll. And they don't bother to see who designed the really
nice web sites they just visited. Ah well. That is likely as not
how I'd find a web designer if I had need of one.
{^_-}
