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[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9648664/?ref_=ttep_ep4
Until I'd watched this i wasn't entirely aware how much I used this too in correspondence to infer joviality or some such.
Don't write emails, and if you must, keep them short. Use messaging, meetings, wikis, issue trackers, any specialised tool you need to use to improve communication.
While this is true for personal emails, the linked article is really talking about marketing emails to strangers.
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While this is true for personal emails, the linked article is really talking about marketing emails to strangers.
Over here in Europe where everyone seems to be on it chat via WhatsApp is really effective. Only used it for customer development & not hard sales though. Very very low barrier & personal.
Unfortunately, I'm sure in 5 years no one will care and we'll all live with the spam.
tldr: suck up to the person you want to get a response from, and the email will then be classified as 'warm'
It's sad that you feel it's "sucking up" when you place value on the other person's existence when considering how you couch your message's intent. A mathematical formula will always have the same result, but a linguistic formula will not. It is unique to every single individual to have ever existed. The words each have a hidden iceberg of meaning which is compounded by the context, not just within the expression, bu…
An excess of empathy gets in the way of clear communication, and recievers should accept that their context is not completely available to senders. They have some responsibility to interpret charitably, and if they don't they're failing to follow basic principles of cooperative social interactions.
A cruder way of putting it: you shouldn't expect everyone who talks to you to be minutely concerned with your personal shit.
There was a very funny episode of the much ignored recent tv show "Corporate", called "Thanks!" [1] which dealt with the the now common use of the exclamation mark [!] to convey "pleasantness" in an email [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9648664/?ref_=ttep_ep4 Until I'd watched this i wasn't entirely aware how much I used this too in correspondence to infer joviality or some such.
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Over here in Europe where everyone seems to be on it chat via WhatsApp is really effective. Only used it for customer development & not hard sales though. Very very low barrier & personal.
If you spam me with SMS or on WhatsApp for sales, I'll just block it and not buy anything. Not sure how others would react, but to me it's just as intrusive as a phone call. Unfortunately, I'm sure in 5 years no one will care and we'll all live with the spam.
Maybe it's not "warm", but to catch my attention you should include something that makes it clear this was hand crafted email for me. There's just so much content pushed out by using marketing automation tools that is nicely written, but totally generic. If your otherwise nice email falls into this category, then it might just get ignored.
There was a very funny episode of the much ignored recent tv show "Corporate", called "Thanks!" [1] which dealt with the the now common use of the exclamation mark [!] to convey "pleasantness" in an email [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9648664/?ref_=ttep_ep4 Until I'd watched this i wasn't entirely aware how much I used this too in correspondence to infer joviality or some such.
The "communication experts" seem intent on outdoing each other. I remember reading an announcement from stackoverflow (IIRC) which had hired someone for community management. They were, and I quote, "beyond excited." How ridiculous is that?
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It's sad that you feel it's "sucking up" when you place value on the other person's existence when considering how you couch your message's intent. A mathematical formula will always have the same result, but a linguistic formula will not. It is unique to every single individual to have ever existed. The words each have a hidden iceberg of meaning which is compounded by the context, not just within the expression, bu…
There is something to be said for taking the reciever's context into account, but it's not possible or desirable to account for the state of their digestion &c in every communication. An excess of empathy gets in the way of clear communication, and recievers should accept that their context is not completely available to senders. They have some responsibility to interpret charitably, and if they don't they're failing…
There was a very funny episode of the much ignored recent tv show "Corporate", called "Thanks!" [1] which dealt with the the now common use of the exclamation mark [!] to convey "pleasantness" in an email [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9648664/?ref_=ttep_ep4 Until I'd watched this i wasn't entirely aware how much I used this too in correspondence to infer joviality or some such.
The "communication experts" seem intent on outdoing each other. I remember reading an announcement from stackoverflow (IIRC) which had hired someone for community management. They were, and I quote, "beyond excited." How ridiculous is that?
I think they became so excited that they visibly radiated their excitement.