Subject: Experienced Marketing Writer for Sales Job
From: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 11/10/08, 10:27
To: job-912982571@craigslist.org

Sirs-

I understand that you're looking for salesmen to approach potential clients on your behalf, and I'd like to be considered. My background is largely in freelance writing, but much of the work I've done has involved writing high-concept sales letters, web copy, pamphlets, and other marketing collateral for firms located in Texas, New York, Chicago, and elsewhere. I also a bit of traditional sales experience by way of various jobs I held in high school, including a six-month stint at a Mont Blanc store in Dallas. 

By writing new and innovative sales letters as well as phone scripts and then following up with communications geared towards the potential client in question, I believe I can get the attention of customers who might be otherwise inaccessible.

I've pasted a recent sample below; it's a sales letter I did for Studio2a, a Chicago-based firm that provides 3d rendering services to architects and related professionals.

Regards,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

It's Labor Day. We're Laboring.


We've never quite understood why it is that anyone would want to celebrate the end of summer, but that's exactly what a good portion of the American public will be up to this Labor Day. We refuse to commemorate the passing of barbecue season with anything other than tears. Besides, we've got a couple of tricks up our collective sleeve.


Virtual Summer Lovin'

While everyone else is running around smelling like bug spray, we'll be at the office, consoling ourselves with ribs and the wonders of 3d rendering. And while others are out on the lake, we'll be creating advanced 3d models of photorealistic lakeside scenes - the sort that aren't subject to mosquitos, isolated thunderstorms, or unwanted in-laws. By the time we're done applying refraction textures and instituting cloud algorithms, you won't be able to tell the difference between your vacation photos and the renderings we built out of nothing last week. Frankly, we'll have a hard time figuring it out ourselves.


The trick is to look for the ones that are perfect. Those are ours.


Our Clients Love 3d. So Will Yours.

But enough about us. What can Studio2a's advanced approach to 3d do for your company? For starters, it can help you to communicate your concepts to clients through pictures of the sort that are worth well over a thousand words. Ultimately, this can help to eliminate change orders, lost time, wasted resources, and other, similarly unsavory things that tend to result from communicational friction. More importantly, our finished product will help to accentuate the merits of your own, making it that much more likely that your next client presentation ends with a green light.


Problems? Solved.

If they ever get around to proclaiming a "Photorealistic 3d Rendering Day," perhaps we'll take the afternoon off. But probably not.

Give us a call today. We'll be here.