Good communication skills are very important skills at work, and e-mail is one of the most important means of written communication today, especially with technological progress, and it is often aimed at conveying information and asking the recipient to take a certain action, and it adopts a coordinated and designed method to take the expected response from the recipient.

In this video, we give you tips and steps for writing professional and effective business emails.

To write professional and effective business emails, follow these steps:

First: choose a clear subject. The subject is a summary of the content of your email, and it is important to be clear and professional to make sure that the recipient knows the purpose of the email. For this reason, it is also better to be direct and clear.

Second: salutations. Any email should begin with a professional salutation, which is brief and mentions the recipient’s last name. If you do not know the recipient’s name, you can use their professional title.

Third: the body of your email. To start writing your topic, you must first know the purpose of your email and the details you want to mention. Make sure that your accent matches the person or people you are sending the email to. You should be formal and serious in most of your messages, but your tone can be less formal and more friendly if you are emailing a colleague or friend.

Keep your email as short as possible, avoid making your message too long and difficult to read, and use simple, short sentences.

Fourth: The conclusion, which is the last line of your email before your signature, and it is the one in which you finish your message. In this line, you summarize and confirm the requests you mentioned in the body of your email.

Fifth: signature. Your email signature font is like a business card. A professional signature typically includes a formal closing salutation, your name, title, company name, and contact information. It can include your professional signature, your company logo, or your photo.

Sixth: Proofreading. After you finish writing your email, your message should be error-free, so make sure there are no spelling, grammatical, or sentence errors before you send your email. And be sure to attach the files you mentioned in your email.

Try to think of yourself as the person receiving the message, and make sure you use the appropriate style.

Seven: Follow up. Many people receive many emails each day, and they may not notice yours or remember to reply to it. If you don’t get a response from the recipient within two days, consider contacting them again with a friendly follow-up email.