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Top 8 Sentences That Reflect Poor Email Etiquette
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1 Its not a high priority
We are talking about eight lines that should
absolutely never ever feature on your business
emails. Thats right. So the first one on my list
is, its not a high priority but thats right.
Now imagine you are writing an email to your boss
or to your colleague or to somebody who is in
another company or in another firm and you start
your email with, its not a high priority but I
request you to look into a certain matter.

Now tell me one thing why would you be writing to
somebody if it was not a priority or high
priority? Right? I mean I understand there are
priorities and there are high priorities and
there are highest priorities. And every person is
capable of deciding for himself or herself on
what priority a certain task is.
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2 Youre probably too busy
Now another line that cannot be part of your
business emails is, youre probably too busy
but Now, why would you want to brand someone as
too busy or too free or too whatever else? You
just write your requirement or you just give out
the information that you have to give out through
your email and let the other person read and
decide what course of action he or she wants to
take.

Branding someone as too busy can come across as
you being sarcastic of almost disrespectful in
the present scenario which is considered very,
very strict in terms of professional email
etiquette
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3 You dont know me
Now another line that should absolutely never
feature in your business emails is, you dont
know me but. I mean common that is hilarious,
isnt it?
This means reminds me of an email that I had
received a long time back from someone that I
didnt know. and the email started with you dont
know me but I must tell you to take I work in the
office adjacent to your office and Im kind of
looking to switch to your company, can you help
me? And the end the person had written thanks and
his name.
I thought that was hilarious and if you ever have
to write to someone whom you dont know from
before, make sure you never write the line you
dont know me coz that would really, really put
off the reader instead why dont you take that
opportunity to introduce yourself properly, your
full name, your designation and your intention of
writing the email.
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4 You can pass along this email to
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• Now another line that Ive come across in emails
  which I find really funny and which should never
  be included in a business email is, can you
  please pass along this email to so and so. Isnt
  that funny? Imagine you want to write to A
  regarding some work, you dont know A.
• So you write to B and request B to pass along
  your email to A. Trust me in the professional
  world this is considered absolutely rude and
  impolite and dont ever do this. Dont ever
  include the line, can you please pass along this
  email to so and so, XYZ in your email because
  thats considered against the professional
  etiquette.

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5 This might not apply to you
Now imagine receiving an email that says, This
might not apply to you but Id still like to
share, okay. That brings me to the question if
this might not apply to me. Why are you sharing
the information with me?. So make sure that
whenever you are writing a business email it is
relevant to the person you are writing it too.
You cannot write random information to a person.
If it does not apply to that person and more so
you cannot write the line which says. This might
not apply to you coz I dont think any person who
is really busy in the corporate world is ever
going to read your email beyond that line if you
use the line. This might not apply to you.
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6 Im not an expert
Well, another line that you must absolutely stay
away from in business emails is, Im no expert
but.. Now if you are not an expert, your
opinion is definitely not appreciated.
Now there are times you want to give an important
opinion or you want to give some feedback and you
may not be an expert on that subject for that
matter. But you can just give your feedback
anyway and leave it for the other person to
decide whether or not they want to take your
feedback.
But do not state that you are not an expert
because then your opinion will not be taken
seriously at all and if I were that person. Who
you are writing to, promise you I wouldnt even
read your email after that.
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7 Please excuse any typos
So I had a colleague who was really funny and he
used to write at the end of his emails, the very,
very absolutely unacceptable line, please excuse
any typos in there may be any in this email. And
I was appalled at just reading that.
Why would you ever write such a line in your
email? The only reason that you would do
something like this is that you are too lazy to
read your email after writing it. You are too
lazy to spell check it, you are too lazy to
correct the punctuation and grammar errors before
hitting the send button.
Do not make this mistake coz it makes you come
across as lazy and lax at your work. So do not
write this line and better still read your email,
check it properly and then send it.
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8 No response needed
Now one last line that I absolutely want to
caution you about is the line, no response
needed. I actually receive so many emails telling
me that they like my videos they like my work
and at the end, people write no response needed.
Well, thank you very much for your compliments
but I promise you if I feel like responding. I
will and if I probably dont have the time to
respond, I may not. But you do not need to write
this in your email at any point in time. Neither
at the beginning nor at the end.
You must leave it for the reader to decide for
himself or herself whether or not he finds it
necessary to respond to your email. So definitely
this is the line that you want to lose and that
line is, no response needed. Im telling you,
this line not needed.
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• Well I really hope youve enjoyed this article
  and learned the fonts that you need to avoid in
  your business emails.
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