Comments on: How to reach out via email without being a kiss-up or a jerk

By: brian

brian — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:02:01 +0000

Actually, I think it is a great idea to be more professional in email, and in my mind, should NOT include these catchy little half-baked sounding phrases, like “reach out.” What ever happened to “let me check with aaa, and get back to you” vs “let me reach out to aaa and get back to you?” “reach-out” sounds really trite. Sorry. But I do like the rest of the advice.

By: Duff

Duff — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:41:58 +0000

A solid tutorial. I wish more of this was common sense! :)

By: Jared Goralnick

Jared Goralnick — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:29:14 +0000

Mark23, feel free to shoot me an email with any specifics you’re curious about! Thanks for stopping by : )

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By: Mark23

Mark23 — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:13:14 +0000

Hi Jared

You have provided nice information on how to write professional mail. I am pretty impressed with your style and would love to learn more topic related to the post. Thanks

By: Jared Goralnick

Jared Goralnick — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:12:23 +0000

Dan, you’re absolutely right about separating the message into a few small paragraphs! I’m going to go alter it right now. It does make things more digestible. The only balance is that you don’t want too many since spacing makes the message appear longer. Thank you for such a helpful addition.

Meryl, those are good tips on email subject lines–thank you : )

EDIT: Dustin, I’m responding to this late (your comment was marked as spam before, sorry!), but thanks for the link and the tag. For the time being I’m trying to stay mostly on topic here but I’d be happy to answer for you any of the questions in the meme–just feel free to email me your curiosities. (Fyi, I commented on your blog post before I saw your comment–thanks for the link!)

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:33:38 +0000

Right on, Jared!

It bugs me when people leave their subject lines blank or write, “Hi.” I try to educate people nicely about these and how they’re mistaken for spam.

If we all could learn better subject headings… we could save each other a lot of time and aggravation.

Oh, need to be careful with words like “tomorrow” or “Monday” as not everyone is an check email freak like I am. :)

By: Dustin Oakley

Dustin Oakley — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:07:31 +0000

Hello Jared,

I’m a little self-conscious about writing this now, given your topic. I have been reading your articles and greatly enjoy your insights.

On my blog I was recently “tagged” for a blog meme. I’m hoping that you would be willing to spend a few minutes to contribute to the thread by answering some questions and passing them along to other bloggers you like.

If you are interested, please look at: http://crasspip.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-meme-thought-virus.html

Thanks much and take care.

By: Dan Markovitz

Dan Markovitz — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:09:10 +0000

Jared,

With regards to your sample email, I’d recommend breaking it into two or three paragraphs. (Never mind that your high school English teacher said that a paragraph has to be a minimum of three sentences.)

I believe that people get easily overwhelmed by something that *appears* to be dense and long, even if it’s not. Short paragraphs – 2 or 3 lines – make the content seem light and easily digestible.

Otherwise, this is an excellent post.

It’s also easy to read.

Even if some of the paragraphs have many lines. (Blog posts have different rules, after all.)

By: Jared Goralnick

Jared Goralnick — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:54:24 +0000

Thank you, Elizabeth!

Geoff, though I think it’s a losing battle, hopefully some more personalized emails will make it from firms pushing their clients news.

Naomi, thank you! Really appreciate your stopping by..and I may just reach out one of these days : )