2. Dear agency partner, Accept in advance my humblest apologies for the exercise in egg-sucking that is about to begin. I hope you will take the enclosed presentation in the spirit in which it is written: with a sense of warmth and fun and in grateful recognition of the help you gave me when starting out. If you can eke out even the smallest kernel of practicable insight from the observations to follow, I shall be pleased. With fondness, your humble domestically-based marketing middle-manager, Tom