Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:03:15 -0700
Subject: Re: Attire
From: "John M. Holmes" <bloonman@airmail.net>
To: balloon@balloonhq.com

>From: Mark Nilsen <mnilsen@execpc.com>

>Pflansing@aol.com wrote:
>
>> "A professional does not approach a prospective customer in street
>> clothes. ... Going to a meeting in street clothes makes you look
>> AMATEUR. If you are a clown, you should go in full clown
make-up..."
>>
>> My girlfriend and I are arguing over this one.  What is everyone's
>> experience regarding selling your skills to restaurants or other 
>> customers? Have you gone in costume or business wear?

>Go in business attire, and bring a portfolio with photos of yourself
>in make-up and costume. Bring letters of reference. THEN if they 
>want to see you made-up, set a time to visit when they are 
>expecting you in costume.

Just my opinion, but the question needs to be asked, "Are you going to
the meeting to DO business or to GET business?". When I go to DO 
business, I dress up in costume and when I go to GET business, I dress

for the occasion. If I owned a string of apartment complexes and 
needed to set up a new "waste removal firm" to handle that problem 
for me, who would I take more serious; someone in a suit or someone 
that looked like they had just rode in on the back of one of their
trucks? 

As I said, though, that's just my opinion. 
Isn't that why you can get chocolate, vanilla and strawberry all 
in one carton of ice cream?

John, The Balloon Man