Too much E-mail

In your "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar, you learn that the two keys to effective use of E-mail are brevity and necessity, sending only what is needed when it is needed. There is simply too much E-mail going on.

A study now shows that your receiver spends an average of four minutes to open, read, respond to, and either delete or store each E-mail. That's a very important statistic for you to consider.

When communicating, you need to picture an actual person in your mind as you compose your message, what they're doing, thinking, and feeling. Part of that, when it comes to E-mail, is to realize that if your message ends up being one of forty or fifty that piled up while they were on vacation. At four minutes per E-mail, they might not have time to read something called, "Another Blond Joke".

Plus, if they are used to getting only important E-mails from you, when they get one, they will tend to think that it is important. If, however, they usually get 15-20 E-mails a day from you, and most of those contain the same jokes, cartoons, and video links that others are sending to them, they won't consider your E-mail to be as important.

Brevity and necessity, the keys to effective use of E-mail, when done in conjunction with all of the other things you'll learn in your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar. Call or E-mail today to schedule a seminar for your group or business, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.

Spoken Communication tip

In your "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar, you learn some of the benefits and responsibilities associated with spoken communication, as opposed to written communication. Among the tips you get regarding spoken communication, you learn to practice out loud when preparing for an oral presentation.

While practicing out loud, listen to yourself. And, while listening, check your pronunciation of words. The Dictionary of Pronunciation warns "...you will...be judged by the words you mispronounce. And you may not be judged kindly."

Read the following sentence out loud while listening to yourself. "The realtor, wearing jewelry, was comfortable selling the nuclear plant, regardless of the economy." You should have pronounced the italicized as they are spelled. Too often, pronunciations sound more like, "The ree-la-ter, wearing joo-ler-ee, was comf-ter-bull selling the noo-cue-ler plant, ir-regardless of the economy." If any of the second sentence sounds familiar to you as you read it, "you may not be judged kindly."

Call or E-mail today to schedule your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar for your group or business, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.