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10 Email Sins You Must Stop Committing Right Now

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If someone read the first 3 paragraphs, they probably don’t want to buy your stuff. If they did want to buy it, they stopped reading after the 1st paragraph and never made it to the pitch. Newsletter Sin: Just because someone once handed you a business card does not make it OK for you to add them to your newsletter email list.

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Why I’m Over Declaring Tech Tools “Over”

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If I’m an iPhone user and a newer iPhone model comes out, sure, I’ll jump in and buy it, knowing there is no need to keep using both. This is not the same as when a new version of a product we’re already using is launched. It would be redundant. This is not the case with Google+.

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Old Habits, New Skills: Repetitive Injuries and Voice Recognition Software

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I ended up buying the sister product called Dragon Dictate, which is designed to work on a Mac. Surely, I could easily learn a new way to get work done. Many of my friends recommended the same software, something called Dragon Naturally Speaking which works on PCs.

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10 Email Sins You Must Stop Committing Right Now

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If someone read the first 3 paragraphs, they probably don’t want to buy your stuff. If they did want to buy it, they stopped reading after the 1st paragraph and never made it to the pitch. Newsletter Sin: Just because someone once handed you a business card does not make it OK for you to add them to your newsletter email list.

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10 Email Sins You Must Stop Committing Right Now

Almost Savvy

If someone read the first 3 paragraphs, they probably don’t want to buy your stuff. If they did want to buy it, they stopped reading after the 1st paragraph and never made it to the pitch. Newsletter Sin: Just because someone once handed you a business card does not make it OK for you to add them to your newsletter email list.

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Twitter Etiquette: Outside Voices, Inside Voices and Whispers

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they mention iPad and you reply “@user Like iPads, buy one at [link] ). . - Introducing yourself or striking up a conversation with someone you’d like to get to know. Bad uses of your inside voice: - Replying to someone based on a keyword search (i.e., Whispering on Twitter. It is intimate.

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Happy Holidays! Please Enjoy This Spam | Almost Savvy

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I was just noticing that I received 1 personal email wishing me Happy Holidays, and about 90 emails from fellow professionals wishing me the same while encouraging me to buy theirs and/or an affiliate’s product. Please Enjoy This Spam&# AffirmingSpirit says: January 12, 2010 at 10:35 pm Funny that you mention this, Irene.

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