
How to send a personal email - astrec
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/01/how-to-send-a-p.html
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alex_c
I'm trying to figure out who the target audience is for this blog post.

I get the feeling it's "people who email Seth Godin"...

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jonknee
Like almost all of his other posts, this is directed towards marketers.

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ynd
No smugness intended.

This just has to be mentionned:

My Seth Godin decline letter. Thoughts?,
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=398293>

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dpifke
Funny, that's exactly the article I was thinking about as I read this.

The impersonal auto-response link above pretty badly contradicts the advice
given here. I wonder if Seth Godin wrote the current post as "lessons learned"
or just didn't feel like following his own best practices. (Physician, heal
thyself.)

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daveyjohnson
Did Seth just realize he wasn't the only one receiving all those personal
emails directly from Barack Obama?

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noahlt
Not necessarily on topic, but: when sending personal emails (not even
business-personal emails, but actual personal emails between friends&family)
do you include a salutation?

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kirubakaran
Dear Noah,

No.

Thanks,

Kirubakaran.

PS: Hope you had a merry Christmas or a happy New Year or both. If not, hang
in there buddy!

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diN0bot
> "5. Don't send HTML or pictures. Personal email doesn't, why are you?"

uh. shouldn't you just do what you normally do? just like the "keep your
salutation normal and un-merged" rules?

i personally prefer text only emails, though attachments are fine. i
appreciate a client that permits me to "click on" htp://... to automatically
see the page rather than copy paste (pine, gmail).

when i set up meetings with people i've never met in person before i often
include a picture of myself. i sprinkle that same picture around the internet.
maybe interacting with strangers isn't personal, but then the whole point of
the picture is to make things more open, friendly and personable.

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rokhayakebe
Both business and personal emails are read by people, not machines, so write
in the same style. Just keep LOL & C U L8r 4 SMS.

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arnorhs
i don't agree with him

