In no less than five sentences explain your plan for writing to the Spiritworks based on the questions.

You are the Sales Manager of Shopify, the small Canadian alternative to Amazon. Your site sells many small business products from specialty teas, to unique chocolates to jewellery designs and more. None of your management team are indigenous yourselves.

You want to convince Spiritworks, an indigenous business selling wooden boxes, cedar vases, specialty art and jewellery, to list their products on your site. Having them on your site would be inspirational for other businesses and be inclusive of indigenous art. They would be an interesting addition to your list of vendors. You need more businesses on your site to make it viable in the long term and they would have a wider reach nationally for their products. You can help by using your expertise in packaging and shipping. Therefore, you think the partnership would be good for everyone. But, they would have to get an account and pay the administration fee and may not want to be associated with other businesses, but stand alone.

You have learned that when you communicate with indigenous communities, you cant have a fixed agenda, you cant be aggressive and you cant have a strict deadline.

How can you sensitively convince Spiritworks to join with you?

1) What techniques of persuasion can you use and why? 2) How can you propose this sensitive project? What words would you use? 3) What information should you include or exclude? 4) What product will you use to communicate and why?