10 tips for creating emails that people read  25 10 2013
top-10-list-2010-resized-600After spending the last several
hours reading, replying and deleting 500+ emails in my inbox, I
decided to take a short break and offer my “top 10″ list on how
to create emails that people actually read and respond to.   If
time is people’s most valuable resource, consider ways you can
write emails that are easier to read, shorter to write, and
quicker to reply to.         1. Name the main point early.
 Determine ahead of time what is the main point of the email.
What do you want people to remember or do? Name your main point
in the subject line of the email or else within the first
paragraph.   2. Avoid sending “book” emails.   Keep in mind that
the longer your emails are, the less likely that they will be
read. A pet peeve of mine when reading emails is having to read
a page or more of content to find out that I really didn’t need
to read or respond to the email.   3. Only send to people that
need to know.  There are times