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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. so you don’t miss any future Almost Savvy social media updates, events and news. Image courtesy of iamqui.

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Virtual Personal Space | Almost Savvy

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Whether at a live networking event or connecting with people through virtual social networking sites, no one want to receive sales pitches, marketing emails, and links to buy the “latest, greatest product on the market guaranteed to make you rich in just 10 days.&# tune us out.

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Twitter Etiquette: Outside Voices, Inside Voices and Whispers

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Good uses of your outside voice: - Sharing helpful or interesting information about news, events, tips, etc. they mention iPad and you reply “@user Like iPads, buy one at [link] ). Bad uses of your outside voice: - Repeatedly tweeting self-promotional information. Your Inside Voice on Twitter. . Whispering on Twitter.

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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. so you don’t miss any future Almost Savvy social media updates, events and news. Image courtesy of iamqui.

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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. so you don’t miss any future Almost Savvy social media updates, events and news. Image courtesy of iamqui.

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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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Just Because We're Social Networking “Friends” Doesn't Mean I'll.

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Why then are people and businesses promoting themselves and trying to get me to buy their stuff as soon as I connect with them? If this happened at a live networking event, the conversation would go something like this: “Hi. I most certainly do not want to click on your link to buy something or find out more about you.