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You Making These Email Blunders Scroll to top David Masters David Masters Oct • min read English Marketing Email Newsletters Management Communication This post is part of a series called Writing Effective Business Emails. How to Write Emails That People Read and Take Action On How to Email Important People For most working people email is their favorite communication tool.
We spend a quarter of our working lives in our email inboxes. Little wonder that we sometimes operate on autopilot when writing email and fail to take proper care and attention. Email Blunders Are you or even Country Email List cost you money. Image source Envato Elements Yet email mistakes can be costly. Small mistakes eat into your productivity expanding your workload when you already have too much to do. Bigger mistakes can cause you personal or professional embarrassment. Worse they could cost you a valuable client or even your job. So smarten up on what not to do with email so when you re on the verge of making a mistake you can pull back and correct course.
Let s start with one of the most common email blunders Hitting the Wrong Reply or Forward Button An email that goes out to the wrong person is not only embarrassing—it can hurt financially too. One public relations manager was so frustrated with a client that she fired off an email to an employee. Go around the client if you want to get anything done the email said. Unfortunately the manager made the mistake of including the client in the email. The firm lost a million account. It even happens to the best of us. Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics fame once complained to his co writer Steven Levitt that a research team he was trying to interview was a bunch of liars. Well he thought he was complaining to Levitt.
We spend a quarter of our working lives in our email inboxes. Little wonder that we sometimes operate on autopilot when writing email and fail to take proper care and attention. Email Blunders Are you or even Country Email List cost you money. Image source Envato Elements Yet email mistakes can be costly. Small mistakes eat into your productivity expanding your workload when you already have too much to do. Bigger mistakes can cause you personal or professional embarrassment. Worse they could cost you a valuable client or even your job. So smarten up on what not to do with email so when you re on the verge of making a mistake you can pull back and correct course.
Let s start with one of the most common email blunders Hitting the Wrong Reply or Forward Button An email that goes out to the wrong person is not only embarrassing—it can hurt financially too. One public relations manager was so frustrated with a client that she fired off an email to an employee. Go around the client if you want to get anything done the email said. Unfortunately the manager made the mistake of including the client in the email. The firm lost a million account. It even happens to the best of us. Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics fame once complained to his co writer Steven Levitt that a research team he was trying to interview was a bunch of liars. Well he thought he was complaining to Levitt.