Welcome back to another bonus episode of Cubicle to CEO, the podcast where we ask successful

entrepreneurs, the business questions you can't Google.

I'm your host, Ellen Yin, and dare I be very bold and say that these next five minutes

together may actually change

the way you email forever and drastically improve your business success. And here is my number one

tip. Stop ending your emails with this sentence. Let me know if dot, dot, dot, dot. Let me know if you're interested.

Let me know if you would like to do this. Let me know fill in the blank, right? This is a

conversation killer. I'll tell you why. When you end an email with let me know if it's a statement.

It's not a question. And the way that

our brains are wired, we as humans don't feel the same urgency or responsibility to respond to a

statement as we do a direct question. When you say, let me know if it basically gives people permission to make a mental

rain check and say, yeah, I'll let you know if I'm interested, which may be never, or it may be

sometime far in the future, and by then I'll have forgotten to respond in the first place.

What I would highly recommend you do instead

is to flip that statement into an actual question. So what does a question look like? Instead of saying,

let me know if you're interested, you could instead say, are you interested in, fill in the

blank with whatever desired action you have?

Are you interested in having me on your show?

Are you interested in this proposed partnership?

Are you interested in joining our program?

Do you see how when you ask a specific direct question to someone, especially if it's a yes,

no question, it's a lot harder for the person receiving that question on the other end to just blatantly ghost you and ignore a direct

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