I came across you profile today and I thought that it might make sense, in this particular case, for us to briefly speak.

I am the head of U.S. Green Building Partners. Among other things, we work with houses of worship to reduce operational expenses by 40-50% and increase church membership through Green Audits and Branding. In this challenging economy the need for differentiation is more important than ever. I’d like to discuss some of the work we’ve done recently and programs we might put in place to help members of your church. Our primary focus is on no/low cost Green measures. I have no idea if you have any needs in this area but I wanted to reach out to you regardless.

Please feel free to contact me if you think there is any reason for us to have a brief discussion.

OK, I DON'T think there's any reason for us to have a discussion (brief or otherwise). Mainly because I'm not representing a church on my LinkedIn profile. I'm the executive director of a small, independent Christian teaching & training ministry – not a church. We work out of my home; we don't have a physical office space. Nor am I involved with my church's facilities management or finances.
I especially like the comment “I have no idea if you have any needs in this area.”
PRICELESS

If I get something that I don't want, it's SPAM? That would be most of my mail, anything on a bulletin board, 90% of the telephone calls and just now, and email from a friend who believed she had to dump her address book into the TO field because she heard the 28th amendment was going to pass if we all forwarded messages.

No, SPAM is the repeated sending of the same message.. technically from the practice of CROSS POSTING in UseNet forums.

I need companies to send me a commercial message from time to time, and I need to send people an invitation to engage myself.. let's not get carried away… other will take that as a call to ban everything :)

Good persuasion does not look like persuasion. It's news, information, answers to questions, and ENGAGEMENT. It's the marketing of the future..

LISTEN and LOVE.. it's as simple as that.

We do offer similar products, but trust me on this, Our Product is much higher quality. We sell ours by the pound or by the bucket. And you can get fries with that if you ask for the jumbo combo.

Thank's for clearing up the confusion that has plagued us at Vague Inc over the years.

This post was mentioned on Twitter by WarrenWhitlock: @SigSeattle That letter was sort of like a long Auto DM.. http://bit.ly/cwLs2D...