{"id":315,"date":"2011-05-30T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2011-05-30T21:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T21:07:13","slug":"proposals-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/30\/proposals-gone-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposals Gone Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/questns.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-317\" title=\"questns\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/questns-300x276.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m Brett Sterenson with Hotel Lobbyists.\u00a0 Here are some examples of people who I\u2019m not.\u00a0 I\u2019m not Ms. Rashkundar with the American Podiatry Association.\u00a0 I\u2019m not Mr. Rafferty with the Traitheletes Society.\u00a0 I\u2019m not Ms. McMahon with NASA.\u00a0 And I\u2019m also not Mr. Cohn with the National Hemophiliacs Foundation.\u00a0 But if you read some of the more recent proposals that were sent to me by esteemed hotels, you might think I had a number of different personas.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, technological efficiencies can sometimes whittle away the personalized details that once came with the, dare-I-say, handwritten proposal.\u00a0 I\u2019m all for technological advances too \u2013 nary a day goes by I don\u2019t stare at my phone when it\u2019s ringing and silently scream, \u201cWhy won\u2019t they just email me?\u201d\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But with email and other electronic communication mediums, comes the ever dreaded form proposal.\u00a0 And when hotels use a form proposal by writing over it rather than using a database to populate the many fields, they are prone to forget that ever disguised Ms. Rashkundar that\u2019s now been indelibly tied to their closing paragraph where it used to say something a bit more cryptic like [Title. Last_Name$].\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty is that once I\u2019m called Mr. Rafferty and not Mr. Sterenson, I immediately jump to the conclusion that this is a hotel where details can be missed.\u00a0 Not where a miss is a guarantee, but where some t\u2019s may go uncrossed or worse, where some t\u2019s may go dotted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Brett Sterenson with Hotel Lobbyists.\u00a0 Here are some examples of people who I\u2019m not.\u00a0 I\u2019m not Ms. Rashkundar with the American Podiatry Association.\u00a0 I\u2019m not Mr. Rafferty with the Traitheletes Society.\u00a0 I\u2019m not Ms. McMahon with NASA.\u00a0 And I\u2019m also not Mr. Cohn with the National Hemophiliacs Foundation.\u00a0 But if you read some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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