Effective Emailing - 'the Bing way'
Stanley Bing writes for FORTUNE magazine. His books rock. I loved 'What Would Machiavelli Do?"
This short set of tips is excerpted from an article in his collection, "The Big Bing"
* Is the email I'm about to send necessary? And if not, is it at least fun? If you cannot answer 'Yes', don't hit that SEND button
* Stop telling people you Will Do Something. Do it - then send a message it's done. Until then, I assume you Will Do It.
* Stop thanking people so much.
* I'm also not interested in hearing that there's "No problem". Know what? There better not be.
* Stop using email when there's a phone on your desk. Email is for confirmation and simple discussion. Phones are for doing business.
* Don't hold back email with data in it. But shred the follow-up saying "Go for it"
* Stop copying me on transitional stuff. I want stuff that's fully baked. Not half-baked!
* No email chains of more than 10 communications. Absolutely. When you reach that number, have a meeting!
* If I see the same subject line in my inbox once too often, you're toast! Toast!
Ok? Will do? Thanks!
Wonder how IM'ers will react to some of the suggestions!
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This short set of tips is excerpted from an article in his collection, "The Big Bing"
* Is the email I'm about to send necessary? And if not, is it at least fun? If you cannot answer 'Yes', don't hit that SEND button
* Stop telling people you Will Do Something. Do it - then send a message it's done. Until then, I assume you Will Do It.
* Stop thanking people so much.
* I'm also not interested in hearing that there's "No problem". Know what? There better not be.
* Stop using email when there's a phone on your desk. Email is for confirmation and simple discussion. Phones are for doing business.
* Don't hold back email with data in it. But shred the follow-up saying "Go for it"
* Stop copying me on transitional stuff. I want stuff that's fully baked. Not half-baked!
* No email chains of more than 10 communications. Absolutely. When you reach that number, have a meeting!
* If I see the same subject line in my inbox once too often, you're toast! Toast!
Ok? Will do? Thanks!
Wonder how IM'ers will react to some of the suggestions!
Follow the discussion on this post at the Warrior Forum at http:// - click here
Technorati tags: Technorati Tags:
Dr.Mani, memes, marketing, purple cow
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