Persuasion – Contacting companies..

After doing our Pecha Kuchas we had to start contacting the companies that we mentioned in our presentations. So, I emailed M&S, Boots and Debenhams and then tried calling them all. I managed to get through to Boots however they didn’t want to answer my questions.. which sadly wasn’t very useful for me. M&S sent me an automated email telling me that they couldn’t email me back directly with any answers. Debenhams didn’t seem to understand what I had sent and replied with an automated message about work experience and applying for a job. Apart from this I had created my own lists of questions and had filled out the ethics form however at this point (other than in depth research) it was quite difficult for me to make drastic advances. As I was a little worried at this stage about making substantial progress I had a quick chat with Ian after the Proposal lecture with Paul. We thought that a good approach to take would be looking at some Feminist pressure groups that would back the issue that I have looked into, so I found some organisations to email such as ‘Guerilla Girls’, ‘UK Feminista’ and ‘thefword.org.uk’.