Contracts: on letterhead?
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- Scotch_Roman
OK so I've been typesetting proposals on my letterhead and then send a PDF to potential clients for their review. Once fees and terms are settled on, do you print designers then send two copies of a contract vial snail mail, that's printed on your actual letterhead? Or do you just stick with a PDF and have them send back one copy with a signature (either faxed or scanned PDF)?
I'm wondering if there's a common practice. Can't remember how former employers used to do it. I'm wondering right now because I've got a bunch of PDF proposals floating around out there, and I need to print letterhead and envelopes if it *is* standard protocol to send contracts via mail. I'm also nearly out of business cards, so I need to decide whether to print letterhead at the same time, or save the trees and only do business cards.
I guess I'm wondering if anyone thinks it makes a damn bit of professional difference. I've got a kind of a high-end personal brand image, but I certainly don't want to incur waste if it's silly.
- horton0
yes i've done the duplicate signed hardcopies via letter mail for a retainer contract. reviewed with client first via pdf, but in the end a signed paper copy for both parties looks professional and puts everyone's mind at ease.
- Scotch_Roman0
Thanks horton! You're just the sort of man whose opinion I was after.
:)