How often do we write emails in a day? For myself, at least once a day. Mr. Dan Santow advises us on how to write the email’s subject better. But why do we need to write the email’s subject better? Definitely to make us look more professional, and reduce the possibility of HR Manager having regrets for hiring a person who unable to create good subject on their emails 🙂

Highlight of his advises is Write it after you write the email body, and keep it short. Interestingly, folks at Lifeclever take it to the extreme by suggesting to write email with subject only. I personally think this idea of subject-only email is brilliant. Imagine when your boss email/SMS you saying that the Web Application on the production server is down. After fixing it, you could just this email:

But it is interesting considering that the local customs tend to promote ‘beating-the-bush’. Will subject-only emails makes us scorned? Another interesting discussion would be whether this subject-only-emails applicable when communicating with people outside your organization/clients? Since doing that might render us as being rude and lazy 🙂

So my conclusion would be:

1. I will take Mr. Dan Santow’s advise wholeheartedly
2. Lifeclever’s advise is good for making your communications more effective. But in the beginning you might need to give a one-time warning/ask permission about the possibility of you sending them subject-only emails in the future

Ok. That’s my take. What about yours?

Sources:

Get your email read with a killer subject line

Subject to Change

Get to the point with subject-only emails

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I always consider blogging as a mean to improve yourself. By sharing your knowledge, you actually become more knowledgable on that subject you are writing about. To create an article, usually it starts with what you know. Moving to the next paragraphs you realize that you forgot a detail about something, you then googled, read a book and find answer to your own question. Thus, now you know more about the subject you writing.

I was highly inspired by these advises so i decided to record them in a single post which we can refer again and again

• Advises on content of your post:
  1. The Law of Value
  2. The Law of Headlines and Hooks
  3. The Law of ‘How To’
  4. The Law of the List
  5. The Law of the Story

• Advises on how to give explosive title to your posting (which requires you to create an explosive content in order to work):
  
  1. Give Me [short time period] and I’ll Give You [blank]
  2. If You Don’t [blank] Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later
  3. The Lazy [blank’s] Way to [blank]
  4. Do You Recognize the [number] Early Warning Signs of [blank]?
  5. See How Easily You Can [desirable result]
  6. You Don’t Have to Be [something challenging] to be [desired result]
  7. Do You Make These Mistakes?

• Advises on how to write your content:
  
  1. Use short sentences.
  2. Use short first paragraphs.
  3. Use vigorous English.
  4. Be positive, not negative.

• Another advises on how to write your content:
  
  1. Ask a Question
  2. Share an Anecdote or Quote
  3. Invoke the Mind’s Eye
  4. Use an Analogy, Metaphor or Simile
  5. Cite a Shocking Statistic

OK, It’s time to relax and let the points sink down into our brain. Hopefully it will be useful and affect us in may good ways.