Dear Partner, if you’d actually read the email you just responded to, you’d see that the answer to your question is already there… in bold and underlined. 🤦‍♂️

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My favorite is offering two options and getting “yes” in response 🙃

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This is my 13th reason TBQH

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“Per my email”

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Amen.

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Read? You expect me…to read? Sorry, clients don’t want to pay for that type of stuff. Now, what was the answer to my question?

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