How an email prompt can help you write better emails

Key quotes:

• "Be it communication with colleagues and managers, following up on a sales lead, or simply correspondence to expand your network, the ability to write a good email is fast becoming an essential skill."
• "Here are top 10 ways to write business emails that have a better shot at invoking the desired response: How you compose your email should depend on who’s going to open it."
• "An email sent to a friendly team-member requesting help should be different in tone, style, and information to an email written to a sales lead."
• "If you are writing to someone who’s very busy and receives more than a hundred emails a day, you might want to jump straight to the Call to Action to get your point across in the shortest time."
• "Mails at the head of a queue are more likely to receive a response."
• "Call to Action Readers are likely to respond to emails when they know what that response should be."

Key quotes:

• "And one of the most effective ways is to send an email to your list of customers and prospects, asking what topics they find most important: Hi [first name], As [position name] of [company], there’s nothing that keeps me up at night more than thinking about how we can deliver more value to you."
• "Thanks, [your name and title] Glowing reviews help generate positive word-of-mouth, increase the chances for referrals, and provide you with that all-important social proof (which puts other customers and potential customers at ease because someone has validated your product or service)."
• "I would love to try to make things right, so if you would like to discuss this further, please contact me at [direct phone number/email].I look forward to making your experience with [your company] a better one."

Key quotes:

• "Despite the rise of social media, email remain effective and are one of the primary means of communication, both personally and professionally."
• "In addition to that people often send emails when the better solution is to just pick up the phone and make a quick call."
• "Putting that aside though, what are the common mistakes people make when trying to write an effective email."
• "It clogs their inbox and they often end up skipping over these emails anyway, potentially missing the one time you actually need them to comment on something."
• "If you require their response or action on something then you should also send a direct email."
• "To write an effective email heading you should reference the idea/project/customer and provide a clear overview of what is being discussed in the email."

Key quotes:

• "If you’re cold-emailing someone or asking a co-worker to do something, your email better be right on point if you want action or a response."
• "If you don’t nail it, recipients are less likely to open and read your message."
• "How you approach the subject line depends on whether or not you know the recipient."
• "If you know them, the subject line should be a short phrase about your request and the deadline."
• "For example, if you’re contacting a co-worker about information for a report, the subject line could be: Need status of Blair project by Friday, January 11th."
• "However, if you don’t know the recipient, you need to explain how you got their name and why you’re contacting them."

Transcript: Oh, there's free cake in the staff room? Thanks for letting me know. See you there. Yeah, free cake. All right. Hey, everyone. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lessonon writing a business or professional email in English. Now, this is useful for those of you who arejust starting a corporate job, or if you are looking to work in an English environmentwhere emails are constant. So, I use my email every day. I can tell you 100% that I have used all ofthese at one point or another in my emailing career, we'll say. So, I've sent thousands of emails, and I'veused all of these. So, these are phrases that you can use ininternal emails between yourself and your colleagues, or between yourself and someonewho works with your company. So, maybe you know someone who is selling,you know, technology to your company, like printers or computers; maybe there's someonewho supplies paper for your company and you have to interact with them, so you can usethese phrases and expressions with them. All right? So, first we'll start with the greeting. We have: "Hello", "Hi", "Hey, Steve". Steve - these are all for Steve. So, you notice... If... See more →

Transcript: Hey friends my name is Tosh and I welcome you to a new lesson emails we have to write a lot of emails these days we receive a lot of emails we send a lot of emails we read through a lot of females however how effectively do we write emails it's very very important as a professional you should roll it right well because I personally think that what you are or how you are as a person definitely reflects in your writing so today I'm going to help you with six tips to write an effective email so let's get started the first one says subject line let's see if I have written something like this emergency okay please read urgently now what I think is an emergency or maybe what I think is urgent it's not necessary that you also think it's urgent or if I have to say something like say important please read it's important but how am I supposed to understand that what I think is important is also important to you of course not this is absolutely wrong because nobody is going to look at your email if this is your subject line... See more →

Transcript: Hi. My name is Emma, and today we are going tolook at some very useful email expressions. So we're going to look at five in total, andthese email expressions can be used in formal email writing. So I've had a lot of studentsin the past tell me that they spend hours writing very simple, short emails. These expressionswill help you to improve your email writing, and to write emails a lot quicker.So let's get started. Okay, so our first expression, verycommon: "Please find attached _________." Okay? "Please find attached _________." So,what do I mean by "attached"? So, in this case, "attached" is a verb, but "an attachment",which is the same thing but in the noun form, is an added computer file. So it's a computerfile we add to an email. So, what are some examples of attachments? Well: "Please findattached my resume." This may be an added computer file. "Please find attached photosfrom the conference." So it's a very simple phrase. It's very polite. Notice we have "please"."Please find attached _________." And then you just fill in the blank with the computerfile you're adding to the email. Okay? So that's our first expression. Now let's look at our second expression.... See more →

Key quotes:

• "Here’s the whole point: If you’re sending an email, you want a response."
• "The most successful (and now famous) email subject line of all time is Barack Obama’s “Hey”."
• "I’ve been using this tool by Co-Schedule to help me with email marketing subject lines."
• "If you only do one thing in your next email, please, for the love of all things good, ask a question."
• "❌ Not this: I’d like to know if you’d be willing to meet with me sometime in the next few weeks."
• "If the email is really important, know that it will take time to write, re-read, and edit."