Don't call me.
. My phone is full of voicemail that might never get heard. I'm a creative – not an account guy. Don't expect me to be good with dates and calendars and media plans and faxing signed estimates. That's not what I do.
You might need that sort of thing. That's fine. I've got a short list of account folks I can call upon to help us get your work out the door on time and budget. But don't call me expecting me to waiting by the phone, pencil in hand, ready to kiss your ass. Most likely I'm busy working on some ad that needs to ship tomorrow. That's what we do in this business, so don't let some hot account chick from a big shop with last year's Chanel handbag tell you otherwise.
I'll write you back once I've finished scrambling to get that other guy's ad out the door – or once I've nursed away that hangover I picked-up at that award show last night. So don't call, because I won't answer. Just understand that you're dealing with a creative guy – and if I don't have some sort of evidence of your correspondence in my inbox, I'll probably forget you tried to reach me.