How To Write Professional Emails

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  • Author Sampath Wijeratne
  • Published January 20, 2008
  • Word count 464

Email is not a new thing for the modern age people. But many people do not get the maximum usage of it as they are not aware about professional email writing according to my point of view. Some people lose their jobs, some lose their potential customers, some lose their opportunities and some lose their hopes due to non-professional emails they write. Therefore I thought that it will be better if I can provide few tips on how to write professional emails. I can’t promise you that I will let you know how to write professional emails 100% accurately. But I’m very confident that these tips will help you to improve your skills and ultimately you will benefit from it. Following are the tips that I have followed to write my professional emails.

ONE: You MUST, MUST, MUST create a mail signature. Mail signature is something which you put after your email body which indicates your identity. It is far more better than only writing your name. you can create your email signature like this.

Thank You (You can also use "Thanks & Regards" or simply "Regards" or "Cheers")

John Cena{Your first name and last name}

Engineer{Your position in the company that you work or your own business}

Office: 123 456 789 Mobile:654 321 987{Your contact details (Phone numbers)}

www.yourcompany.com{Your company or your business web address if there is any}

Make sure that you put your country code for the telephone number(s) if your are sending the email to a foreigner.

TWO: Use a language style which is simple yet professional. This is very important if you are sending the email to a foreign person or a group of people whose mother language is not English (To a person like me).

THREE: Do the addressing in a polite and a professional manner. Ex. You can address the person as "Dear Sir" or if you know that person "Dear {Name of the person}" or else you can use "Hello" also with the name or Sir.

FOUR: Make sure that you put the subject in a way that it briefs the content of the email. The receiver of your email might be a very busy person. Normally those kind of people ignore some emails by looking at the subject line. You must make sure that this won’t happen to your email. Imagine what will happen if you send a critical email to your boss without a proper subject line and he ignores it.

These are the main things that you should consider when writing a professional email. You don’t need to consider about these tips if you are writing personal emails. Then the consequences might be vice-versa. Hope you got my point. Wish you can write better professional emails after reading this.

Sampath Wijeratne is the administrator and main contributor of www.best-internet-guide.com which provides information on various topics related to the internet with free of charge. It also provide RSS subscription through a RSS link and by email. You will find more related articles in his website.

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