Last Thursday I was thinking about posts for my http://www.feis-dad.blogspot.com/ blog, [quick side bar: a feis is an Irish Dance Competition] . I came up with a great topic. I would write about how I put in a sprung hardwood dance floor when my daughter started dancing seriously. I put up one post. Then I started to work on the next few and realized that I could do a series of reviews of commercially available sprung dance floors in addition to my article about how I did mine. I emailed a few of the manufacturers to see if I could get samples. [this is the part where I just showed up] I figured;
If I didn’t ask then I was saying “no” for them and I wasn’t giving them
the chance to say “yes”, how presumptuous of me!
Well I emailed four companies, three have gotten back to me, two are sending me flooring next week! (one actually asked if I needed it this week...remember I sent the email on THURSDAY what were they going to next day air the flooring? Yep! I told them not to bother that next week was fine.) A third uses a system for securing it that makes it impractical to have just a sample. But they sent me the information on a nearby studio that uses the flooring. I have not heard back from the 4th yet but I expect them to probably say yes.
So how much is this costing me to get? Nothing. They are sending it all to me for free. Why?
There is more to this story tomorrow...Because I Asked!
No comments:
Post a Comment