Without a nice greeting (Hello, Hi, G'Day, Hey) at the beginning of your business email, you risk your email being perceived as demanding or terse. When you call someone on the phone, you don't just start talking without a greeting. In off-line … [Read more...]
No Email Etiquette Could Mean No Response
Do you wonder why you do not receive responses to your business email inquiries? I know many do -- they email me about it all the time. It is pretty common to get inquiries asking me what I think about not receiving responses to business emails. … [Read more...]
Tips for Seeking Employment by Email
What is the proper way to email a cover letter and resume to a prospective employer? Great question and one I get asked quite often. Let's go over all the variables that you need to consider. You simply cannot underestimate the power of … [Read more...]
How Important are Email Sign-Offs?
Your sign-off is the bow on the package that is your email.Those you communicate with will be looking at your email in its entirety to determine your overall tone. For example, if you send a terse email and sign-off with "Have a nice day!" then … [Read more...]
Email Etiquette and Shared Workstations
A site visitor was curious and pondered: In our open office we have several workstations where staff share PCs. What is the proper response should one staff member find the open work-related email of another staff member, which has not yet been … [Read more...]
Tone is Everything in Business Email
After the obvious importance of spellchecking, proper grammar and sentence structure - next comes tone. You can have all those variables correct and still underestimate the importance of setting the proper tone in your business email … [Read more...]
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