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Re: Survey: How do you want to get info on available training?
Subject:Re: Survey: How do you want to get info on available training? From:Herman Holtz <holtz -at- CLARK -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 22 Feb 1995 18:00:20 -0500
On Wed, 22 Feb 1995, Fran-swah-zzzz @ ext.318 wrote:
> Mary Deaton asked how she can inform the writers' community about the classes
> she offers without starting a "flame war" as was the case with another
> participant.
I would like to think that people in such responsible posts as most
respondents here are would be capable of exercising balanced judgment. I,
for one, find it difficult not to respond to an inquiry for information
with noice of a book I happen to have written that provides the
information requested--e.g., how to write a proposal or gather
information for a newsletter.
Of course, I am inevitably advertising my books, although it is my
publisher and not I who sells them. Of course, other cases are not quite
as "clean" as this, but many cases are in that very broad area if gray
between the black and the white.
* * *
Herman Holtz [holtz -at- clark -dot- net]: Marketing Consultant/Proposal Specialist,
Writing & Ghost Writing Services, 35 years experience. Author of 60+
professional/business books, including best-selling How to Succeed as an
Independent Consultant (Wiley). PO Box 1731, Wheaton, MD 20915. Tel:
301-649-2499. Fax: 301-649-5745.
