I bet you have an email address, do you not? Do not share it. You do not want to share your email address unless you want to get tons of spam. I mean if I said that my email address is chris@pirillo.com, you would email me. If I spell that out, chris@pirillo.com, you would email me, would you not? That is by the way, my email address. Some people email me using YouTube, MySpace, Facebook. I check those messages sometimes but if you email me there, I may or may not read it. I have an email address for a reason so that people can use it. Specifically, to send me their top five list and this top five list from John Lippincott. Top five email tips. Good list.
Number five, do not use any fancy stationery or elaborate signatures. Man, after my own heart. These detract from a content of the email and way its valuable space in people already over spanned email boxes. Not to mention most of the time people do not even look at the signature once they know who is sent from and the address to which it was sent. A simple one line signature is best such as C. That is how I sign everything, C. That is how you know it. If I get your email and respond, it is usually one or two words or a smiley face end with letter C. C is how I sign of my messages because you already know who I am and where to find me. And honestly, fancy HT mailed stationery just drives me up the wall.
Number four create an email with yahoo, hotmail or gmail or another free web email service in addition to your ISP or personal email box. This new email box, you could use exclusively for form registrations, online shopping or other sites that can potentially use that email address to send you spam or sell out your email address to a spammer. This lessens the possibility that spammers will get a hold of your private email address you use to communicate for personal or business correspondence. Good idea.
Number three, use proper spelling, grammar and netiquette. That is internet etiquette. At the very we use a spell check on your email before sending it especially to someone you do not know. Not using proper English or language lowers your IQ in people’s mind. I think I understand what he is talking about. Punctuation and sentence structure helps as well especially when communicating for business. Last but not the least, for the love of God, he says, he put direction in here. He is directing me now. Thank you. John is directing me, yell at camera. Do not type in capital letters. All caps are bad. This is considered yelling in the other person’s face on the internet. Do not use the caps lock key. Do we make ourselves clear? Thank you!
Number two, be careful with email from people or businesses, you do not know. Most text the people can recognize spam or fishing messages at a glance. Be careful with email form an unrecognized name with subjects like, hey, I am glad I found you or urgent, final notice. Spammers use every technique they could think off to get you to second guess yourself and open that email. Also, use an email client or service that automatically blocks the download of embedded or linked picture because often, the email downloading of these pictures and what not can be designed to the spammer that your email account, your email address is active.
Number one, be intelligent with the name of your email address when you created it or your email address and when you use it specifically. Do not create long and complex email addresses such as B412229010star.blankinafunk@myhost.com nobody will ever remember that without having to go to the address book every time. Long complex names cause confusion. Use a unique nick name and as few numbers as possible. Also, sending email from names such as babycakes21@blahblahblah.com or sexybully19@blahblahblah.com or flirtymama@blahblahblah.com, looks highly unprofessional. Never use these kinds of email in the internet when communicating professionally with businesses or especially perspective employers. Also, never put them on a resume. For business or professional emailing, stick with the first initial of your name or part of your name, it at all, possible. A good example might be chris@pirillo.com. Try different combination if the one you want is unavailable. Do not give up easily.
And this is done by our chat room regular, goes by the hand of Janicesix, really appreciate this list. We can all use some email tips especially if you are just starting out. Some of you may think well it is just common sense, of course I do that but here is the thing. I am not saying it. I am not doing this video, we are not writing these tips for people who already know. We are doing these tips for people do not already know. So that instead, you are not explaining all these email netiquette stuff, you can just send them this video. Or if you got a blog or a myspace page or a Facebook account, you can embed this video.
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