Re: Most important vs. Most difficult

Hello Donald.

I'm new to the trading endeavors your requesting help with, but I do find
your thoughts combine to be an interesting Idea. "Bring the world with us
by providing education to its masses." If I understand your request
completely, then you probably have;

Already contacted various embassy officials in DC and other US locations and
have nailed down the fact that they are having trouble getting these books
of yours in any quantity.

contacted, or intend to contact, the various ministries to confirm the need,
and ability to purchase, hence verifying a customer base, in the numbers you
need to be profitable at printing time, exists.

contacted literary agents, whose names were provided by the various learning
institutions, embassy personnel, or librarians, etc; that already are
trusted to handle business for those country's of choice.

contacted publishers to verify prices for books in various quantities so
you'll have sufficient financial information to make a "Go-No Go" decision.

Now therefore, if my above assumptions are correct, I'm lost on how to help
you with language suggestions. It appears to me that you would have the
correct language from your conversations with embassy officials, librarians,
etc;.

Again, I'm very new to these thoughts, and, as I am usually wrong, please
keep me abreast of how you solved for this problem. The day I quit learning
is the day they should place me in a ditch and throw dirt on my face. So,
I'm anxious for you to share your solutions and good fortune.

Sincerely,

Rick Blum
New Listserv Person.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Stahl"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: [spiers] Most important vs. Most difficult


>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Spiers:
>
> Let me see what good advice I can get from you.
>
> I want to export STM (scientific technical medical) books to developing
> countries. Is this too broad an idea? Or is something else wrong with it?
>
> There would be basically two markets in every country, one for university
> level books, and one for textbooks in districts growing their
> educational infrastructure. I can contact the "Ministry of Education" (or
> whatever) for the latter; possibly for the former too.
>
> How should I represent myself? How should I describe the services I offer?
> Should I attempt to be detailed in first contacting the Ministry or leave
> that for contacts with people more directly involved?
>
> What I'm looking for is some phrases to use which will hit the right note,
> not promising too much or too little. Any ideas on that?
>
> When is the next class?
>
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Donald E. Stahl President Stahl Trading Company
> 12545 Olive Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63151-6311 USA
> tel: +1 314-567-8845 fax: +1 603-843-2669
> net: stahltrade@hotmail.com D-U-N-S: 01-067-8568
> e-gold: 105204
>
> P.S. I know better than to use a hotmail address in making the contacts. I
> just don't know of a better service than hotmail's. And I assume most
> contacts will be by snailmail or fax anyway.

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