How NOT to Promote Your Services
I recently received the following email:
Subject: Virtual secretarial assistantance
Vast secretarial experience.
Please contact me if you would like to outsource work.
Thank you
(Name)
(Phone number)
(Email address)
I don’t know whether I was more put off by the obvious typo in the subject line, or by the fact that the person didn’t indicate WHY I should contact them ("vast secretarial experience" just doesn’t cut it) or what TYPE of work I might consider outsourcing to them.
Sometimes I write back with questions or even suggestions on how to find people to partner with, but in this case, I didn’t think it even merited a response.
