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Casual Articles - e-Mails Not Getting Answered? Shhhh! Here's Why
I walked into the office of my Chiropractor/Acupuncturist and signed in. There on the desk were three pens. One looked like a syringe, another was a crooked pen and the third looked like a bone."What are these," I asked, knowing full well they were pens."They're pens," the doctor replied. "I'm trying to decide which one to promote my practice with. What do you think?"It took me a minute to respond. I was dismayed that someone was trying to sell him such clich?' ideas. Who ever th
4. Umm, seriously ... is it really THAT important?
Ugh. Do I really need to explain this one? People who mark ALL of their messages High Priority remind me of the little dude who cried wolf, if you know what I mean.
When I consistently see these from the same people all the time, I start ignoring the priority and answering them LAST in a mail check, just to spite 'em.
Granted, not everyone is as crazy as me and will do this. But at the very least, you're still hurting your chances of getting a reply to *seriously* urgent messages quickly, by abusing priority markers.
»-«
I could go on. I won't.
(Yet.)
I'll save the rest for "Part 2." Unti
Small business success is very similar to learning to walk, talk and spell. The basics have to be understood before moving on to the next step. I am blessed to have twin 3 year old girls in my life and am amazed constantly how much I learn from them on a daily basis. As I watch them run around and explore, I find myself realizing just how much my observations apply to being successful and happy in life and in business.So take heart in the following tips – they may come from little people but t
Here are four common reasons why YOUR mail could be going "the way of the spam", and how to reverse them to get your messages answered -- and answered *fast*:
1. "Can you hear me now? Durn! Can you hear me now? Frick! Can you hear me now? Cripes! Can you...?"
Follow-up e-mails are okay, and quite necessary during these times of overzealous spam filtering. But for the love of all things good and holy ... please give your recipient a reasonable amount of time to answer the FIRST message FIRST!
If you haven't waited *at least* 24 hours -- particularly on a first contact -- you haven't waited long enough. People do have to take care of lives, and spouses, and hunger pangs, and bathing, and... (well okay, maybe not those last two if we're in a REAL pinch ;)).
2. Please, God ... *NO* HTML!
It still boggles my mind how many people ignore this rule.
HTML mail comes to about *twice the size* of plain text mail with equal content. If your recipient can set their mail to skip downloading messages over a certain size, and that size is set low, your e-mail will be cut off in mid-message.
This means the recipient then has to make an extra effort to retrieve YOUR message from the server.
(Annoyance #1.)
And people who send HTML mail seem to always choose a bright blue(??!) hyperlink-colored font that's WAY too tiny for the average eye to read. Umm...
WHY?!
Just about anything other than Courier New is GUARANTEED to be hard to read in some e-mail programs -- and it's usually blind luck that your recipient will HAVE one of those with this problem.
(Annoyance #2.)
And don't even get me started on the odd "glow" blue text has when plopped on a white background ... please?
3. "NO, Mommy! I don't WANNA read an ezine!"
It's inconsiderate to send ezine length e-mails to business people -- period.
You're almost guaranteeing that your mail won't be fully read, or that you'll get a half-a**ed reply, because the reader didn't feel like wading through your verbosity to get to the goods.
"Ezine length" is generally about 9 kilobytes (9k) and above. You can usually tell how large an e-mail is before sending by checking its size in your mail program's outbox. If not, for your reference, 9k is about 650 words. (Yeesh!)
Unless the recipient is *expecting* a long reply from you, 3k (200 words) is a good stopping point for a first contact.
NOTE: YES, this goes for personal e-mails too. Being "friends" with someone isn't license to consistently disrespect their time with mammoth e-mails unless they send the same to you -- consistently.
So, no saying the same thing 8 killion different ways, or using "flowery" language and "pretty" mental pictures to get your point across.
Just say it, say something else and for Heaven's sake ... KEEP IT MOVING.
4. Umm, seriously ... is it really THAT important?
Ugh. Do I really need to explain this one? People who mark ALL of their messages High Priority remind me of the little dude who cried wolf, if you know what I mean.
When I consistently see these from the same people all the time, I start ignoring the priority and answering them LAST in a mail check, just to spite 'em.
Granted, not everyone is as crazy as me and will do this. But at the very least, you're still hurting your chances of getting a reply to *seriously* urgent messages quickly, by abusing priority markers.
»-«
I could go on. I won't.
(Yet.)
I'll save the rest for "Part 2." Until
Economic pressures developed within the framework of a global marketplace have led to unprecedented numbers of mergers and acquisitions over the past decade.The number of mergers and acquisitions involving US companies alone in 2004 reached 376 with an aggregate total paid of US$22.64 billion. In comparison, in 2003, the total amount paid was US$12.92 billion.However, statistics show that the failure rate of most mergers and acquisitions lies somewhere between 40-80%. If one were to def
2. Please, God ... *NO* HTML!
It still boggles my mind how many people ignore this rule.
HTML mail comes to about *twice the size* of plain text mail with equal content. If your recipient can set their mail to skip downloading messages over a certain size, and that size is set low, your e-mail will be cut off in mid-message.
This means the recipient then has to make an extra effort to retrieve YOUR message from the server.
(Annoyance #1.)
And people who send HTML mail seem to always choose a bright blue(??!) hyperlink-colored font that's WAY too tiny for the average eye to read. Umm...
WHY?!
Just about anything other than Courier New is GUARANTEED to be hard to read in some e-mail programs -- and it's usually blind luck that your recipient will HAVE one of those with this problem.
(Annoyance #2.)
And don't even get me started on the odd "glow" blue text has when plopped on a white background ... please?
3. "NO, Mommy! I don't WANNA read an ezine!"
It's inconsiderate to send ezine length e-mails to business people -- period.
You're almost guaranteeing that your mail won't be fully read, or that you'll get a half-a**ed reply, because the reader didn't feel like wading through your verbosity to get to the goods.
"Ezine length" is generally about 9 kilobytes (9k) and above. You can usually tell how large an e-mail is before sending by checking its size in your mail program's outbox. If not, for your reference, 9k is about 650 words. (Yeesh!)
Unless the recipient is *expecting* a long reply from you, 3k (200 words) is a good stopping point for a first contact.
NOTE: YES, this goes for personal e-mails too. Being "friends" with someone isn't license to consistently disrespect their time with mammoth e-mails unless they send the same to you -- consistently.
So, no saying the same thing 8 killion different ways, or using "flowery" language and "pretty" mental pictures to get your point across.
Just say it, say something else and for Heaven's sake ... KEEP IT MOVING.
4. Umm, seriously ... is it really THAT important?
Ugh. Do I really need to explain this one? People who mark ALL of their messages High Priority remind me of the little dude who cried wolf, if you know what I mean.
When I consistently see these from the same people all the time, I start ignoring the priority and answering them LAST in a mail check, just to spite 'em.
Granted, not everyone is as crazy as me and will do this. But at the very least, you're still hurting your chances of getting a reply to *seriously* urgent messages quickly, by abusing priority markers.
»-«
I could go on. I won't.
(Yet.)
I'll save the rest for "Part 2." Unti
It’s Monday morning and you’ve only been at the office for a couple of hours. The phone has not stopped ringing, you’ve barely made a dent in your emails, there is a project deadline looming, a team meeting to lead and your boss is concerned and hassling you about the project outcome. Does any of this sound familiar to you? Does it feel overwhelming?The truth is that order to be successful, productive and less stressed, you need positive, supportive relationships at work. Here are the 7
WHY?!
Just about anything other than Courier New is GUARANTEED to be hard to read in some e-mail programs -- and it's usually blind luck that your recipient will HAVE one of those with this problem.
(Annoyance #2.)
And don't even get me started on the odd "glow" blue text has when plopped on a white background ... please?
3. "NO, Mommy! I don't WANNA read an ezine!"
It's inconsiderate to send ezine length e-mails to business people -- period.
You're almost guaranteeing that your mail won't be fully read, or that you'll get a half-a**ed reply, because the reader didn't feel like wading through your verbosity to get to the goods.
"Ezine length" is generally about 9 kilobytes (9k) and above. You can usually tell how large an e-mail is before sending by checking its size in your mail program's outbox. If not, for your reference, 9k is about 650 words. (Yeesh!)
Unless the recipient is *expecting* a long reply from you, 3k (200 words) is a good stopping point for a first contact.
NOTE: YES, this goes for personal e-mails too. Being "friends" with someone isn't license to consistently disrespect their time with mammoth e-mails unless they send the same to you -- consistently.
So, no saying the same thing 8 killion different ways, or using "flowery" language and "pretty" mental pictures to get your point across.
Just say it, say something else and for Heaven's sake ... KEEP IT MOVING.
4. Umm, seriously ... is it really THAT important?
Ugh. Do I really need to explain this one? People who mark ALL of their messages High Priority remind me of the little dude who cried wolf, if you know what I mean.
When I consistently see these from the same people all the time, I start ignoring the priority and answering them LAST in a mail check, just to spite 'em.
Granted, not everyone is as crazy as me and will do this. But at the very least, you're still hurting your chances of getting a reply to *seriously* urgent messages quickly, by abusing priority markers.
»-«
I could go on. I won't.
(Yet.)
I'll save the rest for "Part 2." Unti
When meeting other investors, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is how is it that I manage to buy up to 5 properties a month when they are struggling to find one.It only takes me a few questions to get to the problem. Their marketing doesn’t make the grade. It’s either haphazard, inconsistent, or nonexistent, and instead of facing that they want to tell me that it’s the economy, or it’s different where they live.Here is what I counsel all the people who want to make wheel ba
"Ezine length" is generally about 9 kilobytes (9k) and above. You can usually tell how large an e-mail is before sending by checking its size in your mail program's outbox. If not, for your reference, 9k is about 650 words. (Yeesh!)
Unless the recipient is *expecting* a long reply from you, 3k (200 words) is a good stopping point for a first contact.
NOTE: YES, this goes for personal e-mails too. Being "friends" with someone isn't license to consistently disrespect their time with mammoth e-mails unless they send the same to you -- consistently.
So, no saying the same thing 8 killion different ways, or using "flowery" language and "pretty" mental pictures to get your point across.
Just say it, say something else and for Heaven's sake ... KEEP IT MOVING.
4. Umm, seriously ... is it really THAT important?
Ugh. Do I really need to explain this one? People who mark ALL of their messages High Priority remind me of the little dude who cried wolf, if you know what I mean.
When I consistently see these from the same people all the time, I start ignoring the priority and answering them LAST in a mail check, just to spite 'em.
Granted, not everyone is as crazy as me and will do this. But at the very least, you're still hurting your chances of getting a reply to *seriously* urgent messages quickly, by abusing priority markers.
»-«
I could go on. I won't.
(Yet.)
I'll save the rest for "Part 2." Unti
In our consulting we believe that we can and will find the solutions to business problems within the organization in which we work. Often we may need to bring in an outside ‘expert’ to show how others are doing work, but essentially companies have the solution at hand. It’s just not acted upon, for a variety of reasons!Have you ever heard of the approach or tool called Amplifying the Positive Deviant, which was created by Jerry Sternin? Jerry and his wife, Monique, worked for the Save the Chil
4. Umm, seriously ... is it really THAT important?
Ugh. Do I really need to explain this one? People who mark ALL of their messages High Priority remind me of the little dude who cried wolf, if you know what I mean.
When I consistently see these from the same people all the time, I start ignoring the priority and answering them LAST in a mail check, just to spite 'em.
Granted, not everyone is as crazy as me and will do this. But at the very least, you're still hurting your chances of getting a reply to *seriously* urgent messages quickly, by abusing priority markers.
»-«
I could go on. I won't.
(Yet.)
I'll save the rest for "Part 2." Until then, clean up your e-mail act if you need to, and watch more of your e-mails not only get answered, but get answered faster -- and lots more productively, too.
Commit the above shameful offenses at your own risk!
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