From the Microsoft Small Business center, courtesy of Monte Enbysk. I’ve given the executive summary here. You should head over to the site and check out the rest.
1. Use e-mail as one channel of communication, but not your only one.
2. Keep it short and sweet and don’t allow e-mail threads longer than a football field.
3. De-code your messages as much as possible.
4. Encourage people to respond to questions.
5. Save your wrath for face-to-face meetings.
6. Likewise, inject humor, but keep emoticons, smiley faces and joke emails to a minimum.
7. Consider setting a 5-minute buffer between when you send and when it goes out.
8. Work in time each day to answer your e-mails, or get help.
9. If you can’t write e-mails effectively, get some training.
10. Use spell-check — and a thesaurus.
Again, great advice from the Microsoft site. And believe me, I am trying to not be biased…. :)
Let's share with you the Crazy Life Hacks Email Writing to your Boss.
1. Use e-mail as one channel of communication, but not your only one.
2. Keep it short and sweet and don’t allow e-mail threads longer than a football field.
3. De-code your messages as much as possible.
4. Encourage people to respond to questions.
5. Save your wrath for face-to-face meetings.
6. Likewise, inject humor, but keep emoticons, smiley faces and joke emails to a minimum.
7. Consider setting a 5-minute buffer between when you send and when it goes out.
8. Work in time each day to answer your e-mails, or get help.
9. If you can’t write e-mails effectively, get some training.
10. Use spell-check — and a thesaurus.
Again, great advice from the Microsoft site. And believe me, I am trying to not be biased…. :)
