Anyone who works in business needs to be able to write well. Writing skills are crucial to communicate successfully and sell whatever ideas, products, or services you have to offer. Your writing has the power to attract your reader’s attention, whether it's a short remark in an email or a sophisticated argument in a report. According to Bill Richard, there are eight criteria that characterize great prose, which are summarized
Summer is just starting and everyone deserves a vacation at this point. In order to be on top of your game at work, it might be a good idea to create an "out of office" response. Let's have a look at how to do it properly! What to do? The most important thing is to know your audience. You need to consider this, because that way you can figure out
In the digital world, emojis are becoming a commonly used communication tool. Using emojis in your emails can be the key to deliver effective messages in a fun and less formal way. A little bit of history and fun facts 🤩 The term emoji originates from the Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "letter, character"). 🇯🇵 Starting from the first set of 176 emojis, created in 1999 by Japanese
Most of us are sending emails on a daily basis and many people might think that the font is not important. Let's have a look at how fonts actually work! The choice of font should depend on the tone of voice that you want to achieve, so first, let's dive in to the basic psychology of fonts. The Basic Psychology Behind Fonts 1. Sans serif - the most used font
Microsoft has finally listened to feedback from meeting organizers who’ve wanted an easy way to disable the video of all attendees in a meeting. Very soon meeting organizers will quickly be able to prevent attendees from turning on their camera when they’re meant to be focused on the presentation. You will receive to features: Disable/enable a single attendee’s video Disable/enable the video of all attendees It is over with attendees
A global pandemic can really stir things up in the marketing world. In 2020, we’ve seen some big changes in digital marketing and 2021 is likely to bring even more changes. As a digital marketer, it’s important to pay attention to trends so you can stay on top of changing best practices without disrupting your entire marketing strategy. That’s why we’re sharing seven email marketing predictions for 2021. With these
A global pandemic can really stir things up in the marketing world. In 2020, we’ve seen some big changes in digital marketing and 2021 is likely to bring even more changes. As a digital marketer, it’s important to pay attention to trends so you can stay on top of changing best practices without disrupting your entire marketing strategy. That’s why we’re sharing seven email marketing predictions for 2021. With these
By analysing the email design trends from 2019 you can get a jump start in 2020 and focus on crafting an email design strategy that will help you see more results from your email marketing efforts. 1. Video in Email Video content is only becoming more popular, well – at least the video trend is growing as more content is being shared on social networks being “rich media”. (do people
@Mentions is the way to get someone's attention in an email message or a meeting invite. We show you how easy it is to use the @ symbol directly in your Outlook. @Mentions work in Outlook in much the same way as they do everywhere else you’ve used them. Type an “@” symbol in the body of an email or calendar invite and then start typing a name and any
There is a lot of debate on the execution of dark mode in emails. While it is a challenge for email marketers, it is turning out to be an important aspect of accessibility. It changes the color palette of the interface so that the content is displayed in dark background colors and light foreground. Dark mode is often confused with color inversion. Several themes in the digital marketplace enable color
