From the archives...


I just stumbled across an email I sent back in 2015:

Hi Oliver,
I hope you don't mind me dropping you a quick email. Earlier this year I started an elearning consultancy - one of the main things I'm doing is building very creative and very engaging, custom elearning courses (the link below shows off some recent examples).
I just wanted to drop you an email to see if you could put me in touch with the right person at your company who might be looking for this type of service?
Or if you are in fact the right person, are you planning to deliver any really engaging, interactive elearning modules in the near future, on which we could potentially work together?
Please drop me an email if you would like a chat - my details are below.
If not, really sorry to have bothered you!
Cheers,
- Ant Pugh
www.elearningarchitect.co.uk

Not only is the writing and messaging awful, but the turd-polishing is also dialled up to a nine on the turd-polishing Richter scale.

Ironically, this business venture was pretty successful.

It just made me feel crap inside...

Yours,
- Ant

Ant Pugh

I write a daily email helping Learning & Development professionals ditch meaningless work and earn more money

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