{"id":1969,"date":"2013-09-23T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2013-09-23T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T10:23:08","slug":"responsive-email-desogn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/responsive-email-desogn\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsive Email Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like your email actually puts you more behind?\u00a0 That you are so far behind, that you are so busy answering tedious emails that you can\u2019t get your work done?\u00a0 Sometimes people forget the purpose of email, and it becomes the opposite of its intent.\u00a0 It is suppose to speed up our communication and save time, not be a burden.\u00a0 If you want people to respond to your emails quickly and correctly, make sure you set them up properly.\u00a0 When you write your next email try to remember these tips and facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>47% of emails are opened on Mobile Devices<\/li>\n<li>People view their emails on their phone roughly 150 times a day<\/li>\n<li>80% of people will delete an email if it doesnt look right on their phone.<\/li>\n<li>Most people will only read the first couple sentences of an email before deciding whether to respond or ignore it.<\/li>\n<li>Limit Attachments, too many will overwhelm most people.<\/li>\n<li>If you are forwarding a large back and forth conversation, summarize it for the person you are sending it to, so they don\u2019t have to scroll through the email chain.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t use reply all unless it is absolutely necessary.\u00a0 Otherwise you are just adding to the clutter.<\/li>\n<li>Remember to be extra polite in email.\u00a0 You can be easily misunderstood as text doesn\u2019t clearily show emotion or intent.\u00a0 It is always better to error on the side of caution when communicating via text.<\/li>\n<li>Keep your jokes to yourself.\u00a0 Jokes dont communicate well over text.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t write emails when you are emotional.\u00a0 Whether you are mad, upset, or sad, try not to write when you are on edge.\u00a0 You will regret what you say later.<\/li>\n<li>Create clear succinct subject lines.\u00a0 Quick and to the point.<\/li>\n<li>Respond Quickly. This one can\u2019t be stressed enough. Even if you are too busy to give a full reply, let the person know that you received their email, and you will be replying in full soon.<\/li>\n<li>Answer all questions in the email.\u00a0 If someone asks you 2 questions, don\u2019t just answer 1 and ignore the other.\u00a0 That forces the person to repeat the question and get frustrated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These all may seem like common sense, but they are easy to forget when you are writing to coworkers you deal with every day, or are friends with outside of the office.\u00a0 Try to help out the people you communicate with by following these tips, and let us know of any tips you know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like your email actually puts you more behind?\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508],"tags":[1070,443,1071,948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}