In the first line of your e-mail, place the action request. Too many e-mail messages are too long, and unfortunately bury the action that the sender is requesting of the reader. … Continue reading E-mail tip: be very clear about what action you want the reader to take
With all of the ways to communicate, relationship building is not an either — or game. Many times, it is a combination. I have always believed that the face-to-face and … Continue reading Ask Marsha: With all this electronic communication and social media, which means is best to stay in touch with clients?
Email Tip: Set work reminder alarms for the same time. You’ve learned how to set reminders… When you use them to remind you to do work (rather than attend a … Continue reading Email Tip: Set work reminder alarms for the same time.
Email is NOT a meeting! Don’t try to make it one! Some people use e-mail to “discuss” issues and gain opinions. Each time an opinion question is sent to numerous … Continue reading Email is NOT a meeting!
Viral Efficiency Tip: Top-Down Inbox Please forward this tip to every e-mailer you know… Let’s help each other be more efficient. Here’s the email efficiency tip: Sort your newly received … Continue reading Email Efficiency Tip: Top-Down Inbox
Urgent e-mails are toxic. For a workgroup to truly get anything done, everyone in that workgroup needs to stop using e-mail urgently. The best rule of thumb is that if … Continue reading Clean Out Your Inbox Week – Thursday’s Free Resource – “Stop Urgent Emails” Posters
Is your inbox empty yet? Here is an eight page, printable magazine entitled “E-mail Savvy,” that has a lot of great tips and information that will help you be more … Continue reading Clean Out Your Inbox Week: Tuesday’s Free Resource – “Email Savvy” Mini Magazine
In the spirit of January, a time for new beginnings and personal improvement, we are challenging the world to rethink the way they use email this week. Therefore, we are announcing the … Continue reading New E-mail Best Practices Assessment Unveiled for Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Here is a great post by Dudley Dawson… enjoy!
We’ve all been on the wrong end of a phone call when the other party was clacking away at his or her computer. Probably doing email, right? Or maybe that … Continue reading Taking a phone call? Close your inbox down.
Dixie disciplines and critiques by e-mail. E-mail is very easily misinterpreted. When you use email to discipline, reprimand, or criticize, chances are that the recipient won’t receive it in the … Continue reading Do you Know this Toxic Emailer? Disciplining Dixie
