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Concise, considerate, and effective emails

Concise, considerate, and effective emails

- [Instructor] Link number six. Effective emails are concise, to the point, and considerate. These days, everyone seems to be extremely busy. This in large part is due to the many different distractions that we all have to deal with. The endless stream of incoming email and text messages, phone calls, not to mention, any number of social media and news updates. So, how can you get the attention of customers and coworkers, family and friends? You have to write effectively, and the best way to do this is to be concise. Otherwise, you run the risk of losing the receiver's attention before they've really started reading. A great way to prevent this from happening is to make a clear point right at the start. Say you want to invite a professor to speak at a conference you're putting together, don't spend the first few paragraphs about how much you admire her work and explaining what the entire conference is about. Provide a…

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