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Subject:Re: What would you do? From:Tony Rocco <tony_rocco -at- NAVIS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 29 Jul 1996 12:04:32 U
RE>What would you do? 7/29/96
1) What is a "generic blue portfolio"?
2) Your criticisms are all reasonable, I think.
3) If I had the time, I would point these things out to the contractor just
to be helpful.
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Date: 7/29/96 11:52
To: Tony Rocco
From: Susan W. Gallagher
I got a call from a local TW contracting company the other day.
I do occasionally use contractors, and sometimes my favorite
ones are too busy or the work is not within their area of
expertise, so I told this contractor to send me some information.
They sent a generic blue portfolio -- OK, not bad.
In one pocket was a letter and some sales literature printed on
8 1/2 x 11 paper. Pretty nice. Looks good. OK.
In the other pocket was a writing sample. Oh, good, I thought!
Well...
In the first sentence they use "which" without a preceeding
comma to introduce a restrictive clause. Ok, not my style,
but not the worst mistake, either.
The second paragraph is a single sentence that's 46 words long.
Still on the first page, the first sentence of the second
section says, "<productName> is build around the concept of..."
instead of "built around".
Page 2 features the sentence, "Contacts are a subset of a prospect."
Page 3 contains a bulleted list of sentence fragments, all terminated
with periods.
On the bottom of page 4, there's a space between the a and the n in
the word "can".
I just don't have the fortitude to proceed to page 5.
Are my standards really *that* unreasonably high?
Obviously, I won't be calling on these contractors any time soon.
Should I *tell* them? (Maybe I just did??? ;-) )
What would you do? Would you point these things out to them, or
just never have any business to sent their way?
I'm curious.
Sue Gallagher
sgallagher -at- expersoft -dot- com
-- The _Guide_ is definitive.
Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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