Direct Mail

[Mike McCarty]

Heidi,

I think that when you reach out to a large number of people you can expect every type of response. It's just a matter of percentages. In any large sampling of people there are a certain number of A.H.'s. There should also be some percentage of people, albeit small in percentage terms, that will respond positively.

[Heidi Maiers]

Yeah, I know that to be true Mike. It's just a darn shame that it's the A.H's that are so quick with their A.H. responses!

[John Reidy]

Heidi,

How ugly! A.H. isn't strong enough but I can't think of anything else that I can use on this forum.

I agree with Mike but this is just outright rude. When someone goes that far to make you unwelcome you must shake their dust from you, turn your back and walk away. They are unworthy of you.

I've seen your work posted here and it's beautiful.

By the way, when I was in advertising we used to say, "Everybody has an A.H. and some people have to act like one."

[Mary Sparrow]

Wow Heidi, I'm so sorry you got that response.

I got mine yesterday. They look nice, it is odd, the paintings themselves look pretty much like I expected them to look, but the rest of it looks darker and browner than it does on my monitor.

At any rate, I am planning on mailing some out this week. My husband is a financial planner so he kindly printed out his mailing list and went through the ones that he knew had young children and that he knows could afford a portrait. The rest of the names on my mailing list are coming from referrals, I have asked a few people that have portraits from me if they knew of anyone that may be interested. One of the girls just gave me 20 names of all of her old college friends that had recently been to visit and had expressed interest in her portrait. My sister-in-law also has given me several names of people that have expressed a little interest at her daughters private school in her town.
My hope is that while I do not know many if not most of the people on my list, that they have all have some form of connection to someone that already has a portrait I have done. I am hoping that this will keep me from getting the response you have unfortunately gotten.