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Inquiry and transactional emails

Inquiry and transactional emails

From the course: Writing Emails People Want to Read

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Inquiry and transactional emails

- Have you ever put off sending an email because you just didn't know what to say? I bet there's someone who's maybe been interested in you or your thing, and maybe they gave you their card, and I bet that card is still sitting on your desk because you didn't know what to say. And then you didn't want to seem needy or desperate. And then it seemed like too much time had gone by. So then you'd really didn't know what to say. So you let more time go by and then you wonder why your career isn't going better. Am I right? Okay, let's see if we can get some clarity here. First of all, let's remember that people are just people and most of them are very nice, just like you. When you are writing an inquiry email, you want to remind them of who you are and how they might know you. Establish some common ground. You want to say something nice about them or their work that makes it clear that you are writing specifically to them…

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