Real-Life Communication
As the pace of everyday life increases, many companies are beginning
to use e-mail to cut postage costs and increase the speed of their communications.
Your business is no exception.
As a freelance music copyist, you must
be the fastest and best priced in order to win the bid on the projects that
keep your business afloat. So, when a call for bids to copy the scores for
a large production comes to your attention, you prepare a budget that you
think will win the contract.
In the budget, you find that it will cost
the company $2,000 for the flat rate music they need copied, and then an additional
50 pages at $3.50 a page, for a total of $175. Plus, there will be $100 in
copying fees and $250 in courier fees. Your total estimate comes to $2,525.
That will include everything from start to finish.
Now you need to
get that bid to the company as soon as possible in order to be considered
before the decision is made. So you need to compose an e-mail bid on services
that includes the figures mentioned above, as well as your timeline, which
will be 15 days from beginning to end of the project.
Remember that
although e-mail is a more efficient way for communicating, it still requires
professionalism and quality. Be sure to check your grammar and spelling before
you click the send button.
"These days we use mostly e-mail to communicate
with clients," says Victor Sagerquist, a music copyist in Los Angeles. "Once
I did an entire feature-sized project using e-mail. It eliminates the need
for messengers and speeds the process of communications."