How To Get Your Email Messages Read

Written by Angela Booth


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An honest, up-front subject line ensures your message will be read, ifrepparttar addressee is interested. For example, if I'm a customer of Sally's Garden Center, I'll be interested that she's having a sale, and will saverepparttar 106076 message.

=> The Message

TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT! Please. Don't obfuscate or waffle. If I don't know what you want after givingrepparttar 106077 message a quick read, I'm not going to read it twice. It's easier to hitrepparttar 106078 delete button.

Make your message short. Try to keep it at one screen, which means less than 200 words. Use plenty of white space, don't send merepparttar 106079 entire 200 words without a paragraph break.

HTML or text?

Your choice. However, I admit I'm biased against HTML. Not only because it's becomingrepparttar 106080 format of choice for spammers, but also because people who use HTML emphasizerepparttar 106081 medium, notrepparttar 106082 message.

A year or two ago Flash-animated Web sites were allrepparttar 106083 rage. They hadrepparttar 106084 same problem. Nothing much to say, and they said it with pretty pictures and glowing colors. Look, I read magazines. I watch TV. I don't need pretty pictures. I just want to know why you're sending me a message.

=> Don't send message attachments

With allrepparttar 106085 viruses around, this one should be obvious, but it's not.

If you want to send someone an attachment, send them an email message first, to let them know whatrepparttar 106086 attachment is, and ask them whether they want to receive it. (If you want to send someone a two megabyte file,repparttar 106087 answer will be NO. Whatever it is, send it by postal mail.)

Like most people, I don't open an attachment unless I know whorepparttar 106088 attachment is from, and whatrepparttar 106089 attachment is.

I expect to receive attachments from my clients. My students also innocently send attachments until I tell them that I prefer their exercises pasted into a text email, not sent as five DOC attachments.

If I don't know you, and you send me an attachment, I'll delete your message, includingrepparttar 106090 attachment.

=> Include ALL your contact details

Spammers never include verifiable names, phone and fax numbers, and postal addresses.

So you MUST include them if you want someone to take your email message seriously. This isrepparttar 106091 easiest way to differentiate yourself from spammers.

If someone trusts me enough to send me their phone and fax numbers, and their postal address, I know they're sending a serious message, and I'll readrepparttar 106092 message carefully.

Getting your email messages read is easy. Just treatrepparttar 106093 people you contactrepparttar 106094 same way you want to be treated. If you do that, your messages will be read.

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Veteran multi-published author and copywriter Angela Booth crafts words for your business --- words to sell, educate or persuade. E-books and e-courses on Web site. FREE ezines for writers and small biz: http://www.digital-e.biz/

Australian author and journalist Angela Booth is the editor and publisher of Creative Small Biz, a new free weekly ezine for writers, designers, photographers, artists and other creatives. Creative Small Biz helps creatives to transform their talents into a flourishing business.


SET UP A PORTABLE WORLDWIDE OFFICE FOR LESS THAN $50 PER MONTH!

Written by Remington J. Penman


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Visitrepparttar JFAX site and followrepparttar 106075 simple instructions to activate your new phone/fax number and to downloadrepparttar 106076 JFAX software (free of charge). I have a London number with JFAX, and I have foundrepparttar 106077 service foolproof and efficient. I have also foundrepparttar 106078 company’s after-sales service to be first-class.

Step 3: A Permanent Postal Address:

Finally, you need to set up a postal address where all your essential mail can be sent to and from where it can be forwarded on to you. One way to do this is to get a P.O. box address. Inrepparttar 106079 United States, this can cost as little as $100 per year, less than $10 per month. Go torepparttar 106080 post office complete with a photo ID and complete a form. Once you pay three months in advance, plus a deposit forrepparttar 106081 keys, you’re in business. In Europe, I’ve found P.O. boxes cost considerably more thanrepparttar 106082 U.S. equivalent. There, using privately operated accommodation addresses is a cheaper way to go. You can find accommodation-address operators inrepparttar 106083 Yellow Pages or your local equivalent under “Office Services” or “Secretarial Services.”

Once your account is up and running, have all your mail sent to this address—bank statements, personal correspondence, subscriptions, deliveries—and haverepparttar 106084 PO box or accommodation address operator forwardrepparttar 106085 items (as they arrive or however frequently you desire) to wherever you want them to be. You’ll have to pay postage for forwarding, which will depend onrepparttar 106086 volume of mail.

Using a permanent postal address means you have to inform onlyrepparttar 106087 operator when you move from one location to another—preferable to having to tell all your correspondents.

Putting It To The Test: Once you’ve completed these three steps, you’ll have a fully operational, portable, personal and/or business communications structure for less than $50 per month. I’ve been using and testing this structure forrepparttar 106088 last six months. Inrepparttar 106089 course of my work, I’ve traveled up and downrepparttar 106090 United Kingdom, into France several times, and recently to Spain and Portugal. Wherever I’ve been, my messages have proven instantly retrievable. I haven’t missed a call. I’ve received all my faxes and email. And my postal communications have proved easy to manage despite my sometimes-constant changes of location.

About the Author:

Remington J. Penman is the editor/publisher of "Worldwide Business Connection" and many business opportunity eBooks. Je has helped thousands of individuals succeed online. Visit his site to find out how you can get started immediately in a business of your own. http://www.uspubs.us or mailto:uspubs.uspubs.us


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