Dearest Friend & Subscriber:
You should read our email box. Some days it's a riot. The other day I got this email from a subscriber's girlfriend:
Hey Mike,
This is the hapless girlfriend who shares an email account with a techie who subscribes to your newsletter.
The amount of dry poopey emails that we get in our inbox is criminal, and it's pathetic that the other electronic types are perpetrating the geek image that's out there by doing these incredibly boring emails. I mean come on? 'All you've ever wanted to learn about C++, Extensive Layer Management Plug-In for mental ray Pipeline?' BRUTAL!
Thank you for the sense of humour in your newsletters.
Mike - I think you need to start a 'how to write a cheese free newsletter' course. I can think of many companies that need your help!
-Disgruntled Dish
Dear Disgruntled Dish:
I feel your pain. I see some of those same emails myself. It is criminal! Think of all the thousands of engineers out there, coming in early, staying late, laboring by moonlight, candlelight and fluorescent light to finish their projects on time.
Mid-day, they pause to check their email, hoping for a bright ray of sunshine - if only a
brief escape from their world of impossible deadlines and cost reductions.
Does that sunshine ever appear?
As John Belushi used to say, "N-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!"
Instead they get an email from their boss. "Steve, the code you turned in last week was
excellent, but the customer decided to cancel the project, and your other deadline has just been moved three weeks closer."
Then they slog through message after message from their comatose vendors, who either mumble in unintelligible monotone or prattle on glibly about their latest $10,000 software license.
Geez, who wants to read THAT?
My job is to deliver that ray of sunshine to all those pleasure-starved engineers. Back in the 80's the Police had a song that said "There has to be an invisible sun." I don't think they were quite sure who the Invisible Sun was, but I'm telling you, it's ME.
So what bright rays of Sunshine do I have to share today?
Quite a few, in fact:
Ray of Sunshine #1: By now you should've gotten our new catalog. You may have noticed, it's gotten FAT. 500 new products, that's a lot o' new stuff. Full of good tidings
of comfort and joy. Grab it off your mail pile, or peruse it here:
http://www.bb-elec.com/catalog.asp?s=e072805
If you didn't get your new catalog yet, you've either fallen off our coveted list, or one of your crafty co-workers filched it from the mail room. Don't fear, we've retained extras for just such an occasion. Just punch in your address and we'll mail it first thing
http://www.bb-elec.com/catalog.asp?s=e072805
Ray of Sunshine #2: You can now communicate USB data up to 500 meters - LEGALLY.
USB is slithering its way into almost every application. Only problem is that pesky 5 meter limitation. Beat it with Extender units - they use regular Unshielded Twisted Pair or fiber cabling, and are fully compliant with USB 1.1 specs and yes, your 2.0 stuff will
work just fine with them. Two cable-end units and necessary power supplies are
included. Fiber models protect your stuff from surges and spikes, and you can't even
get arrested for using it:
http://www.bb-elec.com/product_family.asp?FamilyId=148&s=e072805
Ray of Sunshine #3: We've boned up our catalog with the industrial accessories that you use every day. Terminal blocks, fuses, fuse holders, supplementary protectors and surge protection from Cutler-Hammer.
Dish, you of all people should know that women judge men by their accessories. These
accessories will definitely make men more popular with the womenfolk, especially the disgruntled ones:
Supplementary protectors
http://www.bb-elec.com/product_multi_family.asp?MultiFamilyId=29&s=e072805
Terminal Blocks
http://www.bb-elec.com/product_multi_family.asp?MultiFamilyId=23&s=ee072805
Fuses & holders
http://www.bb-elec.com/product_multi_family.asp?MultiFamilyId=26&s=e072805
Disgruntled Dish, disgruntle no more. I have heard your cry and I have undertaken my
responsibility to relieve you, your boyfriend and his brethren from the dreary gray world of email misery.
Share the light, Dish. Pass this along to those who still have not experienced the light,
those who yet crave that ray of sunshine. For millions of people, tomorrow will be
just another day... but for your friends it will be brighter. Happier. More hopeful. And adorned with superior accessories.
Who loves ya, baby?
Touching Lives With My Email Newsletter,
Mike Fahrion
support@bb-elec.com
(815)433-5100 |
