According to a new 'MailTime Email Mistakes Survey' conducted by MailTime -- a mobile app that makes business email on your smartphone faster, easier, and more conversational -- the top five biggest business email mistakes are:
TOP 5 BUSINESS EMAIL MISTAKES:
#1: Emails that are "insensitive" in tone (93% disapproval)
#2: Emails that are not personally addressed to you (88% disapproval)
#3: Emails that have numerous replies (87% disapproval)
#4: Emails that have numerous recipients (82% disapproval)
#5: Emails that are too long (81% disapproval)
To conduct this study, MailTime surveyed a sample representative of 1,000 working adults. Interestingly, survey data also indicated that excessively long business email communications are not only annoying, but also ineffective:
19% of people won't fully read an email longer than 1 paragraph
51% of people won't fully read an email longer than 2 paragraphs
76% of people won't fully read an email longer than 3 paragraphs
84% of people won't fully read an email longer than 4 paragraphs
Only 10% of people will actually read word-for-word an email longer than 7 paragraphs
Source: www.MailTime.com
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