Doing business over the phone versus via email

[xoxoxoBruce]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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