Do Your Quilting E-mails Reflect Professionalism or Sloppiness?

Writing careless, unprofessional e-mails may turn off customers.  Or they may give customers, editors, and others the idea that you’re as sloppy with your quilt art as you are with your online writing.

Celine at Pimp Your Work has some good tips about writing e-mails in her post, 7 Ways to Make Your E-mails Unprofessional.  She writes sort of “tongue in cheek,” but has some very valid points to make.  I hope you aren’t practicing any of these!

Take time to use the proper English (or other language) you’ve hopefully learned in school and let readers know you care about accuracy, professionalism, and neatness. 

I’ve even seen writers express the idea that they don’t need to proof their e-mails.  “After all, that’s not serious writing,” they comment about casual ones.  This might be true and is okay about those to close friends and family.

However, just about any other writing on the Internet might be seen by others.  You never know who could be in that online group, chat group, or reading your blog.  For a quilter/writer..maybe the editor who had expressed interest in your book.  For a quilter who sells items…perhaps a customer who now wonders if you’re careless with your work.

Take time to think about your e-mail and who may see it.

(Oops!  Have I made any errors in this post?)