10 Surefire Tips for Getting Email Responses
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:16 am
So I’m no mathematician but I estimate that I have written a million emails in my life and received a metric BUHjillion. From the personal to the professional, the automated to the highly focused, the job offer to the request for an interview, every email is a little different. Did you know the average worker gets over 125 email messages a day? And if you are dealing with an outward facing job (as marketers and recruiters tend to do) chances are your number is a lot higher than that. So how do you make your emails mean more than the next guy’s?
By making sure you focus on writing well-written emails that are impossible to ignore, even in a crowded inbox. Here’s how...
What is the next step?
At the end of every email, just like at the end of every advertisement or armenia phone number list commercial, always, ALWAYS, tell the reader what the next step is. Do you need a response? Do you need a response by noon? What happens if you don’t get one? Simply letting people know what you need and when you need it really helps you reader sort through their inbox. But remember to be nice!
Stop using the same SL
Subject lines exist for a reason. When you simply add on to an old email subject line because you are too lazy to type out a new one, it confuses the intent of your email and forces your reader to wade through tons of threaded conversations, omitted text (especially in Gmail) and makes it difficult to find said email later without going through the same confusing thread all over again. At Red Branch Media, we insist on a new conversation when the subject matter changes, every time.
Remember what your momma taught you
Do you just dive right in with a list of demands or get right to the point in your emails? It may be causing people to ignore you. Why? Because it is impolite. Remember when your parents taught you to use the phone? You say who you are, what you need and request the information. If you reach someone you don’t really want to speak to (say a gatekeeper) then you are polite to them and repeat your request. Do the same for email silly!
By making sure you focus on writing well-written emails that are impossible to ignore, even in a crowded inbox. Here’s how...
What is the next step?
At the end of every email, just like at the end of every advertisement or armenia phone number list commercial, always, ALWAYS, tell the reader what the next step is. Do you need a response? Do you need a response by noon? What happens if you don’t get one? Simply letting people know what you need and when you need it really helps you reader sort through their inbox. But remember to be nice!
Stop using the same SL
Subject lines exist for a reason. When you simply add on to an old email subject line because you are too lazy to type out a new one, it confuses the intent of your email and forces your reader to wade through tons of threaded conversations, omitted text (especially in Gmail) and makes it difficult to find said email later without going through the same confusing thread all over again. At Red Branch Media, we insist on a new conversation when the subject matter changes, every time.
Remember what your momma taught you
Do you just dive right in with a list of demands or get right to the point in your emails? It may be causing people to ignore you. Why? Because it is impolite. Remember when your parents taught you to use the phone? You say who you are, what you need and request the information. If you reach someone you don’t really want to speak to (say a gatekeeper) then you are polite to them and repeat your request. Do the same for email silly!