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Make Your Email Replies to Customers Easy To Read Using These 4 Tips

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Most of your customers read your emails on their phones or tablets. And they’re reading your messages while they’re on the go or doing a couple of other things. Like you, your customers are busy.

You can make it easy for customers to quickly read and understand your message by doing just a few key things. Just as companies design their websites for customers to access information with just a few clicks, you need to structure your emails so that they can be quickly read and understood.

Today, I’m giving you four things you can do to make your emails easier for customers to read and understand by making them scannable.

1. Write in short sentences.

Keep your sentences to 15 -20 words. This makes your emails more scannable, as we keep in mind that many people read emails on their phones.

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Empathy, Casual Language, and Personal Pronouns are the secret to amazing complaint response emails

Have you heard of Blue Apron? It’s a grocery delivery service, basically. You get recipes and perfectly proportioned ingredients sent to you, and all you have to do is whip up gourmet meals in your kitchen. I use services like this literally every week. I just don’t have time to grocery shop with my busy kids and my travel schedule.

Well, the first time I tried Blue Apron, my food box came with a little problem. My bag of lentils had a small hole in it, and the lentils spilled.

I emailed Blue Apron that morning, and two hours later this is the response I got: