RE: Advertising (Hopefully List Appropriate)

<Jim>
>Good sales begins by appealing to peoples' wants and then, needs.  Implying
>that they need help is not a way to go about doing this.

Unfortunately, this is the one area of knowledge I know I am lacking in. I
do well with people in person, working with them in all kinds of situations
that make designer's want to pull their hair out, but I'm not much of a
business man and I have a hard time understanding a lot of the concepts and
techniques involved. Does my email really imply that their site "sucks" and
that is why I'm emailing them? I had hoped (when I wrote the email and sent
it) that I was saying only that I felt I could improve upon their site.
Granted, in some cases, I felt their site *did* suck, but didn't want to
say that. I guess maybe I just needed to put more thought into my
wording... I've always tended to trust my instinct when I write anything to
anyone, and to write how I'd talk, since talking to people has always gone
alright for me. <shrug> I obviously have much to learn.


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