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Mar 2024
34m 28s

How to Craft Emails for Busy Readers

Career Contessa
About this episode

Even with social media, text, and DMs, email is still the best way to communicate and contact people who can help your career. Now we just need to make sure those emails are crafted in a way to catch the attention of busy readers! Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, Jason Feifer, will tell you a masterclass on:

  • What bad email communication looks like
  • How to assess your own email writing skills
  • Tactics for formatting your email messages
  • The power of responding to every email


Show Notes

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