Grants Are Serious Business Essential Client Technique

E-mail has been around for thirty years plus now, enough time that we no longer think of it as excluded from business, but integral to business. The old-fashioned paper letter is slowly moving away from the business norm and contracts designed for the new business age of e-mail are all the rage.

What you need to decide is if the e-mail is going to work for you, because if it isn't working for you, it is working against you. In the business of building e-mail networked contacts, standing still is moving backward- moving forward is the only acceptable direction.

E-mail has made grant getting into a venue for communications follow through such as has never existed before; the salient point here is to make it work for you. The simple text e-mail goes through, fancy material may not make the trip, what is important to you is what the message about the need is.

Fancy pictures and audio, music and moving images are pretty, but the business e-mail you will send is destined to reach the mind of person who has serious decisions to make regarding the need you represent. The use of text is therefore the acceptable method, and will likely remain so, until; the web becomes a much more advanced system for carrying data.

Email is designed to accomplish an end, it is an introduction to the people you are going to be in contact with. If they are in Washington, you can likely locate them within the office of a Senator or Congressman, or, Directorate or Department. In the event of a directorate or department remember that it is a system of people, that those who are present on the home page, likely won't be the person who handles grant allocations.

What has worked effectively for our grant writing company is the ability to see down into the organization we are contacting. Each Congressperson has workers on staffs who handle projects that affect their constituency. Each Senator has a staff with a member or several members who handle acquisition funds for projects within their state.

E-mail offers a means to establish phone calls; they are a follow-through on the e-mail to check if people have received it. This is using e-mail as a quick and text based icebreaker to a necessary phone call. Here is where you have a great chance of getting people to become familiar with what you are doing, who you are doing it for, and when it is needed.

In this age of quick quips and fast language acronyms, please remember that the person you are writing to won't know what you are talking about. This basic presumption falls into the pattern of communication in e-mail so quickly, that it is almost difficult to break once the habit is established- don't presume! Do not believe that the person that you are talking to knows what you are talking about- they don't- presume that, and tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, and tell them what you told them. In e-mail communications if you keep the channel open with well-placed and sensible questions for the reader, can you see where they will respond in kind? If you'd like to pursue this, please feel free to write me at drichard1@hotmail.com