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Special considerations for email

Special considerations for email

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Special considerations for email

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- [Judy] Email certainly has advantages and disadvantages. We need to understand how to use it as a serious business communication channel. As you're writing an email consider these questions. Is email the best method for this message? How confidential is the content of the message? Is your subject line clear so the reader will actually read the email? Will your reader pick up your intended tone? So first, be sure to analyze if the message really needs to be sent, or would face-to-face or a quick phone call be a better channel choice? If the answer is yes, email is the best channel, then the same thought and care need to go into preparing email messages as would go into a message being sent any other way. One big paragraph, elementary writing style. "Hey, my name's Sue "and BTW I'm an employee at MXY company "and we're just wondering if you have any information "to send us ASAP on TRS systems "that we r considering…

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