Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Looks profesional, write profesional email too

Email is must have communication for today business activity. Some people may not aware of that email have ethics code, so your email looks profesional and not just email. I write this because I've seen a lot of people just doesn't know (or doesn't care) about this.

I just encourage people to pay more attention on good email manner

1. Use company domain for business purposes. This rule is very simple, never join a mass mail mailing list using your company email, simply signup a free mail service. And oppositely, never response to a company project using free mail.

2. Dont forget to include nice signature in every mail you sent.
It could be your contact detail, such as full name, position, company address, company phone, and company website. It's a very simple, as so many people might forget to set it. For me, receiving email without signature like the person trying to hide these detail, that not good.

3. Do not reply when you're not in the mood..
We seen one-word, one-liner reply like 'ok', 'me too','i agree'. For me it represent the sender not in mood to response. delete unused thread below.

4. Write what you mean, mean what you write
Don't compose an email in hurry, especially that's a weekly report. We can easily knows if an email is composed to catch up the target or it really composed from getting data from lot of sources.
In slank Jakarta word, "gak niat". No, never sent that kind of weekly report, better wait until you really have enough useful data and information.


Happy email-ing !

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