National Email Week
Did you know that this is National Email Week? Did you even know such a thing existed? Well, apparently it does, and I can’t think of a better time to review Seth Godin’s Email Checklist. It begins like this:
Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure:
- Is it going to just one person? (If yes, jump to #10)
- Since it’s going to a group, have I thought about who is on my list?
- Are they blind copied?
- Did every person on the list really and truly opt in? Not like sort of, but really ask for it?
- So that means that if I didn’t send it to them, they’d complain about not getting it?
- See #5. If they wouldn’t complain, take them off!
You can visit Seth’s blog to read the rest of the list. Although it’s very humorous, I think we’re all guilty of doing at least some of these things from time to time. You might be doing something illegal, unethical, or just plain annoying, and not even realize it!
A big thanks to Jacki Hollywood Brown for bringing this checklist to my attention in her blog, Adventures in Organizing.
you are very welcome!
Comment by Jacki Hollywood Brown — June 12, 2008 @ 7:57 pm