{"id":5749,"date":"2022-06-06T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WP\/?p=5749"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:00:21","slug":"email-write-what-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/writing\/email-write-what-makes-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Stop Stop Stop Making It Confusing"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\nh1 {color: navy; text-align: center ;}\ntable {width:50% ; margin-left : auto ; margin-right: auto ; }\n<\/style>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td align=center valign=center>\n<a title=\"Web Content Rx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Web-Content-Rx-Webmasters-Business\/dp\/1601630689\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1446257371&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=web+content+rx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px grey;\" src=\"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/pix\/webcontentrx-thebook.gif\" alt=\"Web Content Rx\" width=\"60px\" height=\"85px\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"5px\" vspace=\"10\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<td align=center valign=center>\n<a title=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117167461434305228207\/?rel=author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-Social-Networking-Fails-ebook\/dp\/B00BHNNEPW\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1364868575&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=when+social+networking+fails&amp;tag=appmatic-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px grey;\" src=\"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/pix\/WhenSNFails.jpg\" alt=\"Social network you way to success.\" width=\"60\" height=\"85\"  align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"10\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\"\/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<p><! AMAZON><\/p>\n<td align=center valign=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wayne-English\/e\/B001P8BW7G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/wayne-english\/e\/b001p8bw7g noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/amazon-author-page.gif\" alt=\"See My Amazon Author Page\" width=\"75\" height=\"47\" align=\"middle\" xstyle=\"vertical-align:middle\"\/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td align=center valign=center>\n<a title=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117167461434305228207\/?rel=author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Finding-Search-Engines-Networking-ebook\/dp\/B00CMRBJ72\/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369940708&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=web+content+rx&amp;tag=appmatic-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px grey;\" src=\"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/pix\/99centtech.jpg\" alt=\"Get a job with our book's help.\" width=\"60\" height=\"85\"  align=\"middle\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"10\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\"\/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td align=center valign=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Triumph-Tragedy-Seven-Short-Stories-ebook\/dp\/B06ZZGNSSN\/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px grey;\" src=\"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/pix\/triumph.jpg\" alt=\"Get a job with our book's help.\" width=\"60\" height=\"85\"  align=\"middle\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"10\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\"\/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;\"><span style=\"margin-bottom: -5px; float: left; color: red; font-size: 75px; line-height: 65px; padding-right: 4px; padding-left: 3px; font-family: Georgia; text-shadow: 0px 0px 10px grey;\">E<\/span>mail is a real tool, but WOW do people ever write confusing nonsense in it. I refer to the technique if this simple, but oh so very confusing technique: <\/p>\n<div style='border-color:black; border-width:1px ; border-style: dotted; border-radius: 5px ; float: right; width:30% ; box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px grey'>\n<h1 style='color:blue; padding-top:10px'>E-MAIL<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p><center>I&#8217;ll call you \/ see you \/ contact you \/ whatever you \/ tomorrow.<\/center><\/p>\n<p style='text-indent: 30px'>I mean, how nice is that? Trouble is you &#8216;ve no way to know when the email will be read. So are you referring to tomorrow, or the day after, or what? To untangle this the reader need to look at the date the email was sent. And guess what, not everyone knows how to do that. SO, DON&#8217;T DO THAT.\n<\/p>\n<p style='text-indent: 30px'>Make your writing crystal clear. (As the writer of the email it is incumbent on you to do that.) Like this: I&#8217;ll contact you on Monday, June 6, 2022 at 9am. Now whenever the email is read, the reader will know when to expect your communication. And, it the email is read after that date and time, the reader knows that the communication was missed and need to do something about that.<\/p>\n<p style='text-indent: 30px'>Oh, and one other thing: when you return an email do please rewrite the subject line. The reader will appreciate that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email is a real tool, but WOW do people ever write confusing nonsense in it. 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