Title Your Emails!!!! (Please)
Posted in: Email
I’ll admit, it is rather easy to forget the importance of writing good subject lines in your e-mails. How many times have you quickly typed “hi” or “!!!!” (or worse, nothing at all) into the subject line of an e-mail you’ve sent off? My guess is that you’ve probably done this several times in the last few days.
Last week I was called out when I failed to follow my own advice. I received the following e-mail from one of my contractors:
“Erin, I’m finding it a pain to scan through our e-mail correspondence, mainly due to non-descript e-mail subjects like “question.” Be a star and try and make them more descriptive like “Website XYZ Javascript rework.” Then, I can spot them easier in our rapidly expanding list of e-mails.”
Not only was this e-mail a great reminder, it was a loud wakeup call pointing out that I’d become lazy - and my laziness was negatively affecting others. Don’t become lazy. Title your e-mails; your recipients will thank you for that small extra bit of effort.
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