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Are you able to sell an idea? - 31 Jul 2002

Could you telephone printers, graphic designers or corporate promotions experts and encourage them to produce their print materials in audio formats? With 1.7 million blind people in the United Kingdom alone, we need a volunteer, or group of volunteers, who can contact organisations on our behalf and encourage them to take a look at our new interactive website.

Where it is the corporate communications executive who regularly spends his budget on print, never thinking about the needs of reading and visually impaired customers we need you to persuade her or him to put some of that budget into audio transcription.

We are keen to also encourage the producers of print materials, printers, public relations and graphic design agencies, to consider the needs of 1 in 25 of the population and to think not only of print but of audio as a means of communicating their message.

Our Marketing/Appeals Officers will be asked to contact and visit companies to encourage them to use our request a quote form or even to become partner organisations with access to our protected areas. We are willing to offer our partner organisations a percentage of any contract secured so it also makes good business sense to work with us. The Marketing/Appeals Officer post will initially be a voluntary position but may lead to a paid post as further business is generated. The post holder will be required to keep in touch with the office via email and telephone but will be able to work from home. Further information can be obtained from our Managing Editor, Alastair McPhee.