Tricks to Appear Smart in Emails

Original English: Tricks to Appear Smart in Emails

If you don't care about being smart in your email, don't read the article.

Well, we're all alone.

In the corporate environment, there is no more productive place to show your cleverness than the fertile soil of electronic communication. Your e-mail writing, sending, and ignoring skills are just as important as snooze skills, even more than your copy-and-paste skills. Here are 15 tips to make you smart, passionate, focused and, above all, smart.

　　1. Complaining that you have received too many messages

Always complaining about the number of messages you have, but never say the exact numbers for the first time. I complained once, because I had 200 unread mails, and I walked out of the breakfast room with a smile. Figure out how many emails other people have and then say twice times as much as they do. This is the number of messages you have.

　　2. Use "From my Phone" signature, for typing manuscript sorry

Use the "From my Phone" signature, even if you didn't send it from your phone. This makes you seem always busy, on the road, and let you exempt from proofreading.

　　3. Respond immediately when your manager replies to an email

It's not possible to keep an eye on the dynamics of each message, but at least you'll notice when your manager responds. Make sure you notice the moment of his response, and then immediately reply to "full consent", "certain", or "just say what I want to say." ”

　　4. The first person to congratulate

Feature on-line? Reply: Cheers, refuels! The baby's almost born? Reply: Good luck! Peanut candy on Brian's desk? Reply: Taste good! Whenever something good happens, it is always the first response and always responds to all. This will make you look like a highly involved team member.

Also, when you keep pointing out how well each person is doing, you leave them feeling good, ignoring the fact that you haven't had any real work in the past year.

　　5. Share casual thoughts at irregular times

Create short, casual ideas that can be sent automatically at midnight. These ideas can be:

• Questions about the progress of the project
• Thoughts on the organizational structure
• Ridiculous feature requests
• A link to a "people interested" article
• A "interesting" rumor about a competitor (we should all "notice" the stuff)

No matter what it is, you will make people sigh, at 3 o'clock in the morning is still thinking for the company, how diligent you should be.

　　6. Place some [info] in the title

Your headline will be incomplete without some explicit information contained in the brackets. Some good ways to use:

• Title: [UPDATE] Last update
• Title: [Confidential] Please do not share
• Title: [We did it] we did it!

　　7. Sending ambiguous but frequent status updates

"Just a quick update on how things work ..."

Use this phrase as the beginning of every other email, and you'll impress your colleagues immediately. They are probably not looking too much in the past, so try to add a little bit of data to this month's returning users, or join the team's new employees over the past 4 months.

　　8. For a full day's whereabouts, release very specific details

To the airport? Let everyone know when you'll be taking a taxi, on the train, through security, at the door, on the plane, in the baggage claim, in another taxi, and back in the office-and in the minute state on your network to find every step of the way.

　　9. To make a long story short as the beginning of each e-mail

Take a bulleted summary as the beginning of each message, labeled "TL;DR" (too long to read). Summarize the main thrust of the message, using bold and italic formatting. The rest of the message is filled with errors because it is too long and almost no one will read it.

　　10. Gently alienate your audience

The beginning of the message can be added, "If you don't care [actually you should care], don't look." This can be done even for shorter messages. The following sentences are included:

• If you don't care about the future of the company, don't look at it ...
• If you know everything about quantum physics, don't look at it ...
• If you're not curious about where I'll be in the next one hours, don't look at it ...

　　11. Use the smart abbreviation

Lgtm, SGTM, FWIW, AFAIK, CIL. Use all that you can use. Refer here.

　　12. Become the first person to propose a meeting

When an email passes through 25, the question of efficiency arises, and the first person to propose a meeting is the winner. Be the winner and propose a meeting. Use abbreviation: F2F

　　13. Send a "friendly ping"

Send a "friendly reminder," "friendly repetition," or "friendly ping" to the old expired email that everyone forgot about one months ago, which makes it feel like there's nothing going around you.

　　14. Wait a week before replying to the direct request, and then ask if you still need

Do not immediately respond to direct requests. If your help is really needed, that person will find you, but in most cases he will just go to someone else. After 7 days, this reply, "I just saw, still need me to deal with it?" “

　　15. Use an overly complex, out-of-Office automated response

If you can't reply to an email all day, set up an auto-reply that's not in the office, and includes people you can contact for each item. Add-ons: Make a complete document that is clear about all the work you are responsible for and who you should contact when you are not present. You do nothing but make you behave smarter.

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