Doing business over the phone versus via email

Cloud · 11-05-2009, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by dar512

A major life-skill in business these days is being able to tell the difference.

totally agree.

Emails are great for documentation and paper trail, but there's a pitfall there, too, as major corporations have found out to their pain. Too much documentation can be a bad thing!

xoxoxoBruce · 11-05-2009, 10:55 PM

Not unless you're a slimeball.

lookout123 · 11-06-2009, 09:56 AM

You don't have to be a slimeball to get screwed by email. The other guy who has a slimeball attorney can work wonders with a perfectly innocent written message.

dar512 · 11-06-2009, 10:03 AM

In my case, it's more that email discussions can go on forever without resolving anything. Being able to identify which issues really require a meeting and which can be handled by email is a useful skill.

And also how to move a discussion from email to a meeting when the thread has gone on too long.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-06-2009, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

You don't have to be a slimeball to get screwed by email. The other guy who has a slimeball attorney can work wonders with a perfectly innocent written message.

If you have to say, 'that's not what I meant', then you weren't making yourself clear to begin with.

tw · 11-08-2009, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

If you have to say, 'that's not what I meant', then you weren't making yourself clear to begin with.

How can anyone be clear if you cannot see his face? "Look in his eyes to see the soul of the man." Do eyes make things clearer?

Or are 'their' eyes watching us? Maybe it only need be clear to them? Clearly we don't yet have answers.

Confirmation will be mailed. (What was the question?)

xoxoxoBruce · 11-09-2009, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by tw

How can anyone be clear if you cannot see his face?

Easy, because you only have what he said(wrote), not what you think he meant, through your interpretation of "body language" etc.

I've heard it a hundred times, Well, he said ____, but I could tell he really meant _____.

lookout123 · 11-11-2009, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

If you have to say, 'that's not what I meant', then you weren't making yourself clear to begin with.

you obviously haven't been through enough lawyered up meetings.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-11-2009, 12:19 PM

I always take a shotgun to lawyered up meetings. It's amazing how congenial they can become.

11-05-2009, 10:55 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Not unless you're a slimeball. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	You don't have to be a slimeball to get screwed by email. The other guy who has a slimeball attorney can work wonders with a perfectly innocent written message. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

11-06-2009, 10:03 AM	#4
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	In my case, it's more that email discussions can go on forever without resolving anything. Being able to identify which issues really require a meeting and which can be handled by email is a useful skill. And also how to move a discussion from email to a meeting when the thread has gone on too long. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

11-11-2009, 12:19 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I always take a shotgun to lawyered up meetings. It's amazing how congenial they can become. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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