Effective Email Communication

Written by Adam Senour


Email, when used properly, can generate additional direct sales and leads; can be used as a tool to communicate with your existing client base to let them know of upcoming events which may affect them; and as a means of ongoing promotion for your business.

The following is a list of simple guidelines and tips that will help you become an effective email communicator. Please bear in mind that many of these guidelines assume that you have never established any prior dialogue and, as you become more familiar with your customers, can often be altered to meet your client's needs.

  1. Send your emails in plain text. While HTML/rich-text-formatted emails do look much more attractive, they will often be accidentally blocked by anti-spam filters and either show up incorrectly or not at all in various email programs. Plain text, onrepparttar other hand, will show up exactly as intended in all email programs.
  2. Include a signature of no more than four lines. Your signature should providerepparttar 109529 recipient with a means to contact you other than email, and should mention your company name. A good email signature format will look something like this:

    Mike Leblanc
    Any Vacuum Cheap
    Website: http://www.anyvacuumcheap.ca
    Telephone: (905) 509-1661

    This signature provides not one, but two ways for a customer to reach you.

    Note: Many people will put their email into their signature files. This is, however, unnecessary asrepparttar 109530 email itself can be replied to directly andrepparttar 109531 email address may be extracted from it.

  3. Use common file formats for email attachments. There are a wide variety of formats for attachments; however, these formats are not universal and as such, many people cannot open various types of attachments.

    The following is a list, in approximate order of universal acceptance (based on my own experiences), of attachments which are commonly accepted:

    • TXT (plain-text)
    • JPG/GIF (pictures)
    • PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader)


Email Scam Warnings!

Written by BB Lee


Email Solicitation Scams by BB Lee (C)2004

Most people online are very familiar withrepparttar Nigerian Email Letter Scams. They've victimized thousands over repparttar 109528 years and continue to do so. I am certain you've received many in your inbox overrepparttar 109529 course of your online experience. They are easy to recognize torepparttar 109530 experienced. But if you are new online check outrepparttar 109531 following signs. These words are usually included (IN BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS) inrepparttar 109532 subject line.

DEAR SIR/MADAM YOUR SOLICITATION YOUR HELP IS NEEDED IMPORTANT PLEASE SIR/MADAM I BEG YOUR ASSISTANCE YOUR ASSISTANCE URGENT FROM MR..... FROM MRS..... A REQUEST FROM MR (FILL IN THE BLANK)

Did you know, according to online resources, these emails also originate in Ghana, Togo, Benin.

Even more surprising, according to online resources, is that many of these swindlers are not even staying in repparttar 109533 countryrepparttar 109534 solicitations originate from. Their home base might be in Europe, Canada, evenrepparttar 109535 United States!

What canrepparttar 109536 average online business person do to avoid these scammers?

Plenty!

Read On!

How The Scam Works! The scam artist proclaims he is an exiled leader or person connected with a former regime. The scammer tries to convince you he was forced to leave his/her home country by new government officials.

Next, they will claim to have a large sum of money, usually millions of dollars, which needs to be transferred to a "safe bank" outside of their country. They must do this beforerepparttar 109537 money is confiscated by greedy government officials.

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