Email etiquette: Tips for serious emails

E-mails are still popular, especially in the business context. Our email etiquette shows you how to send serious emails.

Email etiquette: The email address

The biggest faux pas can already be committed if the writing of the actual email has not yet started.

• As funny or as original some e-mail addresses are, they also look dubious. In this respect, you should take care to simply include your name and the domain of the e-mail service in your e-mail address, but not nicknames, other abbreviations or trivializations.
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Email etiquette: The subject line

• If you do not fill the subject line appropriately, you can expect that the email will either not be read immediately or, alternatively, will be automatically sorted into the "Spam" folder by the email service.
• At the same time, the subject should not be too long, but should rather reflect the essential content of the email in just a few words.

Email etiquette: The greeting

• Every successful and serious email naturally includes a corresponding greeting.
• When greeting, you should orientate yourself to the addressee. Unknown addresses are always addressed with "Dear Sir or Madam" or "Dear Madam / Sir ...".

Email etiquette: The content

Regardless of the content, a certain writing style looks serious. Avoid stringing together main clauses, but cleverly combine them with subjunctions (that because, though).

• Nevertheless, care must of course be taken that you do not write your sentences in endless nestings, so that in the end it is no longer clear what you actually want to express.
• Also important: Attention should be drawn to possible attachments to prevent the recipient from overlooking them.

Email etiquette: The end

• In the end, you should specifically state the central concern of your e-mail so that any misunderstandings are prevented.

Email etiquette: the greeting

• A serious email should always end with a greeting, ideally with the words "Yours sincerely".
• The conclusion of each email is of course the drawing of the name. In order to give it a serious note, it is advisable to scan your own signature and either save it as a permanent signature in the email account or alternatively insert it as an image file at the end of the text.

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