5 ways to quickly get answers to their letters

How many times a day do you check your e-mail? How many emails you send every day? How many of them are marked as "important"?! And finally, how many of these letters still remain unanswered? Write "correct" the letter to which people simply can not answer, you need to be able to. It turns out that there are people who spend entire on these topics seminars, and they (the workshops) are pretty high demand.

Want to quickly get answers to important emails? There are as many as 5 proven ways to get what you want.

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Their experience divided James Cleary (James Clear), founder passivepanda.com.

1. Write a short letter.

People love to put off not so important things. And if it came in the mail such as an important, but very long letter - this is another reason to delay the answer. It is difficult to respond quickly to a long letter. Firstly, it should be read. Second, realize and think about what it says. And finally, thirdly, it is necessary to write a plausible answer. Moreover, such long letters can often contain a lot of questions and different themes. And this creates additional difficulties with the release of the main theme or issue, which in turn again lead to the postponement of this letter in the closet.

For a brief e-mail is much easier to give a short, intelligible and, most importantly, a quick response. One letter - one topic or question!

Write letters less

If you send the employee a lot of letters, in the end, he simply gets used to the fact that every morning in his mailbox are waiting for two or three of your letters. Well, do not answer it now - as the difference? A little later, you send him another reminder letter with the same question.

Do not accustom people to the fact that you can write as many letters Anytime. Teach people to appreciate your letters, sending them only when you have a really important and valuable information.

Always ask to answer your letters

It sounds easy, but we often forget to do it. We can paint the problem as anything in the letter, and even sketch a few possible solutions, but we often forget to ask for a clear answer to this e-mail. For us, as the sender of the letter, the next step - the answer is obvious. But it may not be obvious to the recipient. Especially if the letter sent to the middle of the day or in the hot season and the responses of various deadlines.

Do not forget at the end of the letter always politely ask him to answerBecause it is important for you and the recipient.

Start with a specific timetable

Another reason for delaying responses to the letter - it was not announced by the urgency or the date by which you need to answer. The system of "hot periods" has long taken root in our country and no matter how delayed the execution of the job, we still know that to a certain number, we are obliged to carry it out. The same goes for emails. Specify in the first few sentences as possibleTo which you blood from the nose to get an answer to that letter.

One letter - one recipient

It is tempting to write a letter and specify multiple recipients. Many people are doing it, right? Do not be fooled by the ease and speed. Spend a little more and send a letter to each individually. You'll see, you'll get your answers much faster than collective newsletter. Cause? The fact is that when a person sees in the address bar of multiple recipients, once triggered shifting responsibility to someone from this list. Recipient hopes that someone else from the list of answers to the questions. As a result, you can remain completely unanswered.

If you still need to send a message to a group of people try to clear in a letter to ask a question or to deliver the job to each of these in the list. That is, it turns out a common message to the individual tasks.

Try to be as correct in all situations (no one likes rude) and ask specific questions with a clear time frame for their implementation.