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101 Tips for Writing and Managing Email

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Are you so buried in email that you're missing important messages? Have you ever clicked Send and instantly regretted it? Are you drowning in a flood of email or struggling with a bloated inbox? This practical handbook is packed with tips for writing more professional email, and managing more effectively the email you receive.

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all the spam we receive, many of us are overloaded with email. How do we know that? Type "managing email" into Google, and you get over 550 million hits. Popular topic — 550 million hits is hard to match with any two-word business-oriented search phrase.

A boy working on a computerEmail has become a nightmare for most of us, but you can help restore it to the useful tool it once was. All you have to do is learn to write email that works, and learn to manage the email you receive.

I had to deal with this same problem myself, so over the years I've figured out a whole array of tricks, techniques, and just plain good practices that help me manage the emailstorm. I've selected the best and put them into a jam-packed tips book that shows you how to write more effective and professional email, and how to deal with the mountains of email you receive (whether it's professional or not).

You'll learn how to use the features of your email program to make more sense of the email you receive, and how to do it in less time. There are ideas for managing your inbox, deciding how to delete messages, how to write subject lines, and much more.

Some sample tips

Here's a sample:

Be nice
Write only approving things about people, companies, organizations, countries, races, species and planets. Never criticize. You don't know where your message will go after it reaches your intended recipient.
Send weekend email late
If you send your message early in the weekend to someone who's taking the weekend off, by Monday your message will be old — deep in the queue. Send it late in the weekend, or queue it for delayed delivery early Monday morning.
Set your own priorities
When a message arrives with a high-priority tag, remember that the sender assigned the priority. The message is apparently high priority to the sender — but maybe not to you.
Write subject lines with the most general terms first
When you write subject lines that start with the most general terms, subject sorts later on will group related messages together. For instance, choose "Alson account question" rather than "Question on Alson account."

Table of contents

Here's a chapter-by-chapter summary of what you'll find in this book.

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  • 1Be brief
  • 2Be nice
  • 3Be informal
  • 4Use please, thank you, and thanks
  • 5Don't type when you're angry
  • 6Get therapy elsewhere
  • 7Avoid email feuds
  • 8Resolve emotional issues face-to-face
  • 9Use proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation
  • 10Expect to be misinterpreted
  • 11Think of at least three interpretations
  • 12Don't send off-color "humor"
  • 13Forward only new humor
  • 14Present complex point-by-point rebuttals elsewhere
  • 15Remember that humor is cultural
  • 16Avoid sarcasm
  • 17Avoid color, graphics and fancy fonts
  • 18Choose an easy-to-remember address
  • 19Make sure that your "From" matches your business card
  • 20Make your message easy to read
  • 21Use mixed case
  • 22Put a blank line between paragraphs
  • 23Use a greeting and a personal signature
  • 24Remember that a geographically dispersed team cannot live on email alone
  • 25Send weekend email late
  • 26Don't become an expert
  • 27Set your own priorities
  • 28Consciously choose the priority level of your reply
  • 29Remember that others set their own priorities
  • 30Avoid taking action items
  • 31Think carefully if you receive no reply
  • 32Stand aside in the beginning of group discussions
  • 33Be judicious about attachments
  • 34Consider alternatives to attachments
  • 35Know how to send and receive attachments
  • 36Attach the attachment
  • 37Get permission for large attachments
  • 38Remove attachments from your reply
  • 39Send attachments in formats people can read
  • 40Reply only to the people who care
  • 41Know the difference between Reply and Reply All
  • 42Include everyone important
  • 43Type addresses correctly
  • 44Don't get their address by replying to an old message
  • 45Put BCCs in the BCC field
  • 46Have a subject line
  • 47Don't recycle the subject line
  • 48Don't put the entire message in the subject line
  • 49Be specific in the subject line
  • 50Write subject lines with most general terms first
  • 51File incoming messages in mailboxes
  • 52Know how to search your files
  • 53Consider storing messages in more than one mailbox
  • 54Label messages before copying
  • 55Use filters or rules
  • 56Tame your inbox
  • 57Consider delayed queuing
  • 58Use your address book
  • 59Use a nickname pattern in your address book
  • 60Be careful about multiple nicknames
  • 61Read before printing
  • 62Check for new email judiciously
  • 63Check for new email only when you're interruptible
  • 64Reply to non-urgent email only when you have time to kill
  • 65Triage new messages
  • 66Reply with relevant context
  • 67Reply with relevant context only
  • 68Don't rely on your spell checker
  • 69Know how to use stationery
  • 70Arrange for forwarding
  • 71Don't infect your friends or colleagues
  • 72Don't send spam
  • 73Send only plain text format
  • 74Forward no hoaxes or chain letters
  • 75Don't unsubscribe from spam
  • 76Report all spam
  • 77Get a commercial spam filter service
  • 78Use filters to manage spam-tagged messages
  • 79Put names in the To, not the Subject
  • 80Avoid having your message tagged as spam
  • 81Choose a newsletter format that fits
  • 82Keep all your newsletters in one mailbox or folder
  • 83Become a touch typist
  • 84Correct your device's clock and calendar
  • 85Remember to click Send
  • 86Reply promptly if at all
  • 87Don't trust return receipts
  • 88Think before you use "Out of the Office Autoreply"
  • 89Keep copies of all outgoing messages
  • 90Delete old outgoing email with care
  • 91Pretend that bad people are watching
  • 92Use password common sense
  • 93Use a different password for every account
  • 94Avoid the keyboard mapping
  • 95Be careful about writing down your passwords
  • 96Never tell anyone your password
  • 97Don't carry your laptop in "sleep" mode
  • 98Change your passwords occasionally
  • 99In the open, type your password quickly
  • 100Choose the time to change your password
  • 101Know what you can't delete

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