Communicating

How to email a busy person: Six tips for effective emails

by Marissa on 11 October 2010

As admin, secretary, assistant, or Can-Do-Ologist, I’ve worked inside the very full inboxes of several very successful (and very swamped) folks in both the offline and online business worlds. A couple of times, people asked me for tips on getting responses from those very swamped folks. There’s actually a lot of ground to cover on [...]

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Two reasons email has become ineffective (And how checking it once a day addresses them)

by Marissa on 18 January 2010

Email, for many of us, has reached a point where it feels burdensome and out of control on more days than not. Some folks are ditching email entirely–an impulse I can’t claim is unfamiliar, though I’m not prepared to go to that extreme for business reasons. I’m not alone. Leo declared independence from email. Gwen [...]

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