Hi
Thank-you for your interest in working with me as a marketing consultant.
Before we do anything together, I would like to learn about your situation. Highly skilled and dedicated I may be, but there is only one of me, so I need to focus my energy and attention on businesses I really care about. So this step saves us both a lot of heartache by pretty quickly getting to a yes/no from me.
I look forward to hearing from you and I really hope we can build some success together. Obviously all of your responses are just between us.
All the best
John Allsopp