We live in an attention economy, where the bounds of our productivity and relationships are no longer limited by our access to information, but rather by our ability to sort the relevant from the ...

Email is used by billions of people, ensure your email is effective within the deluge. Email has become part of daily life for literally billions of people, so the ability to communicate effectively ...

As a journalist who frequently reviews and edits submissions, I often find myself switching between writing and reading follow-up emails. And if there’s anything that being on the sending and ...

During our day-to-day at Bread and Butter Ventures, we often find ourselves asking founders to send us a forwardable email. But what exactly does that mean, and how do you write a good one? The ...

Crafting a good email — setting the tone, making your point and coming across professional but not out of touch — is no easy feat. Fortunately, there are ways to simplify the process, amp up your ...

Let’s get right to it: You are writing bad emails. Usually that shakes out one of two ways. In the first, you agonize over each word, padding your emails with too much information, a sundae of ...

Somewhere between birth and college, students hopefully have learned how to compose concise, grammatically correct and contextually appropriate emails. Often they haven’t. So, to head off 3 a.m.

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