RE: Journalist to tech writer

Subject: RE: Journalist to tech writer
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:07:14 -0800 (PST)

Likewise, having been in sales for 15+ years, after you've had to ask
someone for their signature on a 2 million dollar purchase order or
ask for an appointment when you KNOW they don't want to see you,
asking them for their approval on a couple of paragraphs of
information or for a 15 minute appointment for information is a snap.

> think the people skills I learned in journalism help me there.
> Once you've knocked on someone's door uninvited to ask them
> how it feels now that their kid is dead (and we had to do
> an awful lot of that in the '80s) it isn't so hard to approach
> a taciturn engineer.



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on anyone else and never fry bacon in the nude."
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