Comments on: How not to send a Business Proposal http://www.yugatech.com/blog/netrepreneur/how-not-to-send-a-business-proposal/ Philippines, Technology News & Reviews Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:49:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Abby http://www.yugatech.com/blog/netrepreneur/how-not-to-send-a-business-proposal/#comment-135084 Abby Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:10:48 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=976#comment-135084 Looks nice Looks nice

]]> By: Dave Starr http://www.yugatech.com/blog/netrepreneur/how-not-to-send-a-business-proposal/#comment-38305 Dave Starr Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:49:18 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=976#comment-38305 An excellent point. Not long ago an online aquaintance (who runs a sizeable web developement and web commerce business (6 or 8 fill time employees) wanted to hire a person with copyrighting skills who also knew rudimentary audio and video production skills (this fellow wanted to start using audio and video on his ecommerce sites and in his blog). Since he asked for applications from folks on hs blog, I expected he'd get swamped. He got somehting on the order of 30 resposnes, only 4, count them 4, bothered to even use his name. Out of those 4 only 0one mentioned how she could help with his goal of integrating audio and video ... one out of 30 actually 'answered' the add ... the others just said, please sir, pay me money, I need it. No need to ask who got hired, diba? Not long ago another friend was reviewing email responses from a job he'd posted on monster.com. He showed me several in the deleted folder with email response addresses like "mrbigd*ck@yahoo.com" and "younggirllooking forit@hotmail.com ... I mean if one is too cheap to have a'real' address, since Yahoo is free, how long would it take to set up an address that was non-offensive and made it appear the person was actually serious abut wanting a job. Abe you have more patience than I ... I wouldn't have even answered that guy's request for info on your company ... sounds to me just like someone wanting to copycat your business, "fishing" for information on your emplyees, rates, physical plant, etc. Hope it turns out right in the end. An excellent point. Not long ago an online aquaintance (who runs a sizeable web developement and web commerce business (6 or 8 fill time employees) wanted to hire a person with copyrighting skills who also knew rudimentary audio and video production skills (this fellow wanted to start using audio and video on his ecommerce sites and in his blog).

Since he asked for applications from folks on hs blog, I expected he’d get swamped. He got somehting on the order of 30 resposnes, only 4, count them 4, bothered to even use his name.

Out of those 4 only 0one mentioned how she could help with his goal of integrating audio and video … one out of 30 actually ‘answered’ the add … the others just said, please sir, pay me money, I need it.

No need to ask who got hired, diba?

Not long ago another friend was reviewing email responses from a job he’d posted on monster.com. He showed me several in the deleted folder with email response addresses like “mrbigd*ck@yahoo.com” and “younggirllooking forit@hotmail.com … I mean if one is too cheap to have a’real’ address, since Yahoo is free, how long would it take to set up an address that was non-offensive and made it appear the person was actually serious abut wanting a job.

Abe you have more patience than I … I wouldn’t have even answered that guy’s request for info on your company … sounds to me just like someone wanting to copycat your business, “fishing” for information on your emplyees, rates, physical plant, etc. Hope it turns out right in the end.

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.yugatech.com/blog/netrepreneur/how-not-to-send-a-business-proposal/#comment-37681 J. Angelo Racoma Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:04:09 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=976#comment-37681 Yeah, using free email looks bad enough. However, some of my contacts use Gmail and I think Gmail's cool notwithstanding being a free service. :) If it's something like Hotmail, then that's not good. Yeah, using free email looks bad enough. However, some of my contacts use Gmail and I think Gmail’s cool notwithstanding being a free service. :)

If it’s something like Hotmail, then that’s not good.

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