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Dear COMPANY NAME: Thank you for inviting AGENCY NAME to participate in your company's review of proposals to handle your business.

But we'll have to give you a big, fat NO FREAKING THANKS.

Below are six reasons.

I'd give an even 10 but I have to get back to productive work.

We're not fans of giving away our creative concepts and strategies for free.

Our clients (none of whom we landed through an RFP process) pay us well to do things like that.

The first "get together" with COMPANY NAME will most likely be like an awkward first date - except without the wine and potential hook up.

Just tired of the thousand-yard gaze while we're trying to get you excited about what we could do for your company.

Well, maybe we will elect to participate if we can bring a nice Chilean red and you bring a sense of humor, or at least some emotion.

Your ridiculous RFP.

Thick as "War and Peace," as interesting to read as O: The Oprah Magazine; more instructions than a flight manual; inane requests to send 15 copies, in an exact order, bound an exact way.

Never mind the fact that no one at COMPANY NAME wants to sit down and have an actual conversation about what the real pr...

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