Hasty Treat - How To Email Busy People

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes tackle email, specifically, how to email busy people — how to write emails that actually get read, and don’t just get tossed in the archive. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 4:05 Subject lines 11:26 The body 14:33 Best practices Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday, Monday, Monday,
0:02.0	Open wide Dev fans.
0:04.0	Get ready to stuff your face
0:06.0	with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,
0:09.0	get workflows,
0:10.0	break dancing, soft skills, web development,
0:12.0	the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is
0:18.1	Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El El Toro Loco, Torlinsky.
0:25.0	Welcome to Syntax, in this Monday, hasty, treat, we are going to be talking all about one of the things that we deal with every single day.
0:35.4	And this is going to be email.
0:37.1	In particular, we want to talk about how to email busy people, how to write emails that
0:41.5	actually get read and don't just get tossed in the archive.
0:45.1	Because that is a huge thing when you're emailing somebody who's got a lot of stuff on their
0:49.5	plate.
0:50.5	The last thing you want to do is completely overwhelm them.
0:53.2	So my name is Scott Tolinsky and with me as always is West Boss.
0:57.2	Hey everybody.
0:58.1	Hey Wes, are you ready to talk about email?
1:00.0	Because I'm ready to talk about email.
1:01.2	I am.
1:02.0	Yeah, we're going to talk all about how to email busy people so not necessarily
1:06.4	managing email we talked about that not necessarily marketing email I think
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