Always Check Your Comms
It always pays to check your customer communications before they go out. It’s a good idea to have someone else – ideally someone away from the business – to check the communications, because you’re often too close to it to see a problem.
This is a recent sample of emails in my inbox. One of them is a problem for me. Can you tell which one? [Pauses, for dramatic effect…] It’s the bottom email. I can say with some certainty that there is no chance that this email will make my Dad smile, since he died some years ago and his ashes are probably fertilising a bowling green somewhere in the middle of England.
Had I received this email in the immediate aftermath of his demise, when I was a teary, shambling wreck of a man, I would probably have torched the offices of the people who sent it, and certainly unsubscribed for ever.
Where you can, always try and put yourself in the shoes of the person you’re sending something to, the person you’d like to buy from you. You’re hoping to build a rapport with them, not dash it to pieces in one fell swoop.
Paul Dilger's blog 
I’d have been right alongside you with the molotov cocktails chully…
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Good to know bro, good to know…
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I hesitated before picking at this, but I know you’re good for it:
Isn’t it “one fell swoop”? As in, to fell a tree though.
Another good article though, chap.
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Blimey Andy, I think you’re right. Huge apologies – and thanks. Corrected :-).
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