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“The question used to be, ‘Is it appropriate to send holiday wishes with an email?’” Sending a generic email saying “Wishing you a happy holiday from all of us at fill-in-the-blank” can actually backfire. If you haven’t yet started making your email holiday list and checking it twice, don’t start it after a few glasses of egg nog. says Sue Hershkowitz-Coore, sales trainer a nd author of How to Say It To Sell It . “With With the economy the way it is, and the need to build stronger relationships more important than ever, now it’s, ‘What can I say that will make a difference?’”

You open an email and form an opinion of the writer. Whether it’s a co-worker, colleague in another division or a vendor prospecting for your business, all of us make immediate judgment calls about people – about their credibility and the value of the emessage – by the tone of the email and the way it’s written. Email, when used right, builds relationships and expands networks. Bam! It takes what… maybe a nanosecond.

“The question used to be, ‘Is it appropriate to send holiday wishes with an email?’” Sending a generic email saying “Wishing you a happy holiday from all of us at fill-in-the- If you haven’t yet started making your email holiday list and checking it twice, don’t start it after a few says Sue Hershkowitz- Coore, sales trainer and author of How to Say It To Sell It. “With

For now though, I can still get email and other sites so when I was able to read the FastCompany post, Would you Twitter if Your Tweet Carried a $50,000 Price Tag ?, Yes, we need to be aware that regardless of the medium - email, Twitter, blogs - what we say can be held against us. Tags: Communication Skills email etiquett Let Freedom ring. I’m here in Hainan Island, China, just off the coast of the mainland, in the South China Sea.

I’ll call you tomorrow to talk about a meeting place so special your attendees will thank you for finding us. If this sounds like something that will help your customers save money and time, please email <Sue@SpeakerSue.com> or call me (480-575-9711). Tags: Email Etiquette & Productivity Selling Skills email sales tips how to ask for action how to ask for next step how to sell in down economy sales mastery sales tip The question keeps coming up at my sales writing workshops: How do I ask for the next step? 1. Always

I’ll call you tomorrow to talk about a meeting place so special your attendees will thank you for finding us. If this sounds like something that will help your customers save money and time, please email <Sue@SpeakerSue.com> or call me (480-575-9711). Tags: Email Etiquette & Productivity Selling Skills email sales tips how to ask for action how to ask for next step how to sell in down economy sales mastery sales tip The question keeps coming up at my sales writing workshops: How do I ask for the next step? 1. Always

I just got an email from our contest winner and because of a work emergency she is unable to attend our Encore! It’s unfortunate that she cannot attend and we will miss working with her, but this creates a great opportunity for us to give away her FREE SEAT to another lucky winner!   There’s not much that you have to do and there’s not much time, so if would like to take advantage of this professional growth opportunity please go to the DeFinis Communications Elegant Skills for Powerful Presentations Program next week on September 29 and 30, in Palo Alto, CA. The cost

just received an email promotion that was so wrong-headed that it makes a perfect negative case study. Here are 4 Major Email Promo Mistakes that You Should Avoid: The header: This is the email header I saw in my inbox: “ invitation for March 17”. It doesn’t tell me what is happening on that date or why I should care. A Sadly Wasted Effort for a Mystery Event That Might Even Have Been Worth Attending I

A Realtor , dog lover and wonderful pet photographer friend, Mauri Way, has closed every email she has ever sent to me with this wonderful request for referral business: She’s given us permission to use it. (If Tags: Selling Skills email as a sales too By the way, I am NEVER too busy for your referrals. Thank you for keeping me in mind!