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Common Business Email Mistakes
Blog / Improve Sales Skills / Sep 16, 2024 / Posted by John Golden / 13

Common Business Email Mistakes

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Writing business emails can be challenging to some people and there are a few common business email mistakes that can make one fail to communicate effectively.

From what I have analyzed, the three biggest mistakes people make while writing business emails are:

1. Unclear and Wordy: Most business emails tend to have ambiguous or vague expressions. This leaves the recipient wondering what such an email intends to achieve or say. This easily leads to misunderstanding, confusion, or being utterly ignored. This calls for greater care to ensure that the purpose of the email is communicated. This applies to both the subject line and the introduction. While the body has the main message succinctly written.

2. Poor Tone and Language: Most business emails use a tone and language that is informal. This tends to give the impression of being unprofessional or even offensive. In such cases, this can lead to compromising your reputation. Indeed, poor email etiquette can also damage relationships that you could have fostered with a client, colleague, or partner. One has to be formal and respectful in communications, avoiding jargon, slang, and especially technical terms that one is not fully sure of.

3. Poor Proofreading and Editing: Most business emails are prone to grammatical errors, typos, and formatting issues that create a negative impression on the recipient’s mind. This can critically undermine your credibility and professionalism, making it less likely for the recipient to take your email seriously. Before sending an email, it is crucial that you thoroughly proofread and edit it using grammar and spell checkers to ensure its accuracy and clarity.

By avoiding these common business email mistakes, your business communication will become effective, professional, and clear to your audience.

This is why we added our Voyager AI Assistant to the Pipeliner CRM platform. Not only does this assistant write emails for you, but it also allows you to select the tone, and many other parameters to make sure your email resonates with its intended recipient.

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About Author

John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist, he has conducted over 1500 video interviews of thought leaders for Sales POP! online sales magazine & YouTube Channel and for audio podcast channels where Sales POP! is rated in the top 2% of most popular shows out of 3,320,580 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM. In his spare time, John is an avid Martial Artist.

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