10/17/2013 8:10 AM
Mike...I agree with you about the mobile devices and this is coming from someone that sends A LOT of emails through mobile devices. Here is what I like to do:
- My FIRST email to initiate a conversation always opens with a nice greeting. Not only a good morning, afternoon or evening, but I typically see what is happening in the area of the person I am contacting and make reference to some thing.
- Email closings and signatures are something I struggle with. I am guilty of using Regards, but I do so because I don't believe Sincerely is appropriate to someone I do not know yet. I also only attach my email signature ONCE, which includes my company, name, contact info and social links. They don't need to see that in corresponding emails, so I leave it out.
- My FIRST email to open communications ALWAYS comes form a laptop or desktop so I avoid the "Sent from mobile device". To me that tells someone, you aren't that important and I am just emailing you between my other important things.
- Once threads begin to form between myself and the person I am email, my emails become less formal and are just to the point and will be sent from a mobile device. 99% of the time this is also done in return. These corresponding emails are typically just 1-2 sentences and are just short conversations, so IMHO being less formal is ok.
Thoughts?