173: Writing Better Emails with Leslie O’Flahavan
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 28 June 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Email expert Leslie O’Flahavan shares the do’s and don’ts of writing clear emails that build rapport.
You’ll Learn:
- How to use the BLUF technique to get more opens, reads, and replies
- How to use formatting optimally in emails
- The method for writing a strong subject line
About Leslie
Leslie O’Flahavan is a get-to-the point writer and an experienced, versatile writing instructor. As E-WRITE owner since 1996, Leslie has been writing content and teaching customized writing courses for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. Leslie can help the most stubborn, inexperienced, or word-phobic employees at your organization improve their writing skills, so they can do their jobs better.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsor: TextExpander
- Leslie’s website: ewriteonline.com
- Book: Letting Go of the Words by Ginny Redish
- Service: MailChimp
- Service: Constant Contact
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 173 with Leslie |
| 0:25.9 | O'Flahaven. We are talking emails today front center. We do a lot of email |
| 0:31.3 | writing but maybe not a lot of thinking about how to make that email writing all the better. |
| 0:35.0 | So Leslie brings it, and you'll learn one, how to use the bluff technique to get more opens, reads, and replies. |
| 0:42.0 | Two, how to use formatting options. to get more opens, reads, and replies. |
| 0:42.8 | Two, how to use formatting optimally within emails. |
| 0:46.6 | And then three, the method for writing a strong subject line quickly |
| 0:51.8 | and easily. |
| 0:52.3 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript |
| 0:55.2 | or the links to items that we reference here, |
| 0:57.0 | you'll find that over at awesome at your job. |
| 0:59.0 | com slash eep 173. And while you're at awesome at your job, I hope you check out some of the cool stuff we've got going for you. |
| 1:08.0 | One thing I'd highlight here is the 10 days to winning at work email course. |
| 1:12.0 | Selections of my best tips and tactics to |
| 1:14.8 | slash through wasted time in the work week excerpted from my enhanced thinking |
| 1:20.2 | collaboration training programs so I think you can dig that. |
| 1:24.4 | You get it free to your inbox, |
| 1:25.8 | you can sign up right there at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:28.9 | But for now, here's Leslie Oflahaven is an online writing expert who specializes in helping organizations |
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