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Public Relations Rant Warning

<begin rant>

Let me set the stage - I'm a garden writer - 60 newspapers, 7 books etc etc.
My Net connection is a dial-up modem.  I'm 20+ miles from the switch and 
it's slow.  While I'm connected, nobody is ever going to accuse me of 
blazing Net speed. ;-)

I need a continuing flow of information from the trade about what you guys 
are doing.  You want me to cover/write about what you are doing so that my 
million plus weekly readers get some information about your products.  So 
far, so good.  We both want to work together.

It's my job to write about gardening in an entertaining and informative 
manner.
It's your job to let me know of your products.

More and more producers are sending me humongeous email files complete with 
pictures, animated singing canaries - you name it and I've received 
it.  These huge files clog up my email server and hang my system.  I have 
to manually go into the server to delete those large files and when I have 
to do that before I've finished my morning coffee, I'm a little less than 
reasonable about having to do so.

Let me suggest that you simply send me an email with your story highlights 
and a clickable url so that if I need to see the gorgeous photo of your new 
packaging or new plant, I can go there and take a look.  If I need to use 
that gorgeous photo - you can give me permission to download it (I know 
how) and send it to my papers.  But, you really don't want to take up the 
bandwidth to send me a publication quality photograph through the 
email.  Holy clog-up batman!

If you think I need a photograph, then send me one through the snail mail 
but not - if you want it published - through the email.

I get well over 100 emails a day and I don't have the bandwidth or patience 
to deal with huge files.  Give us both a break - keep those emails short, 
simple and to the point without graphics or html.

It's basic commonsense pr on your part.  Don't do anything that will get in 
the way of your real message.

</end rant>

Doug
Douglas Green,
Freelance writing: You've got a story to tell - I can write it.
http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com/clips/clipmaster.htm

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