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Email Triage: What it is and how it can help you

ProAssisting Blog

Now I’ll detail how I use email triage with the hope that you see a use for this technique in your dealings with both work and personal emails to “maximize email success in the shortest time period&#. Then I quickly scan through for any emails from my boss as action items for the upcoming week.

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An Email Can Change Your Life: How to Write a Pitch Email

Success

It’s simple, I tell them: I sent an email. I’m just really good at finding the right email addresses and crafting an enticing pitch. By sending an email, you could accomplish your dreams , just like I have. I credit all of my achievements to being really good at email pitching. I don’t have any special connections.

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Twitter Lays Off 10% Of Its Workforce 

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Saturday night brought the first sign of layoffs for some employees; they found that their corporate email accounts and laptops had been logged out. Farewells were posted on Twitter by those that had been laid off, and the remaining employees used encrypted messaging services verify who was still employed.

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My 6 Stages of Grief When Dealing With Mean Emails

Success

I call it the email sucker punch. You’re having a great day and then you get that email. A rude email sucker punched me a few weeks ago. I was emailing people left and right , exploring new options, getting stuff done —overall, I was excited about the future. It loves these emails. Then one wasn’t. It’s all over.

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Sweet - SarcMark: A punctuation mark for sarcasm!

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Submitted by Ethan on January 15, 2010 at 04:51 PM I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read an email, IM, Facebook post or comment online and not known if the person writing the remark was serious or not. Digg Email Facebook Google Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati TwitThis Comments #1. to download (why not free?)

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The Assistant's Toolkit - ProAssisting's free assistant training.

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Put your name and email in the form below and hit the ‘submit’ button. Digg Email Facebook Google Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati TwitThis Comments The Assistants Toolkit - Free Assistant Training Join ProAssistings free 10-part assistant training series delivered weekly to your inbox: CLICK HERE TO JOIN NOW!

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Are your work communications professional? Are you sure?

ProAssisting Blog

Speaking, emailing or writing a new business deck, the communication doesn’t take on the formal tone that work communication deserves. I don’t blame our “wired in&# generation for this; they’ve grown up with Twitter, Facebook and IM status updates where slang and short communication rule. Agree, disagree?

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