Comments on: How to Change Your Email Headers to Ensure Your Email Gets Read Faster

By: Frank Borges LL0SA= Broker FranklyRealty.com Short Sales

Frank Borges LL0SA= Broker FranklyRealty.com Short Sales — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:45:59 +0000

I’m big into changing your email headers to not look like spam. Put your company information and maybe your phone number. Also no “quick question” emails. If it is that quick… put it in the subject! (but also repeat it in the body, as it is easy to miss)

Just linked to you, I did a story over at varbuzz.com

By: Forest Ang

Forest Ang — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:27:00 +0000

Great tips & some comments too…i will apply them. Thks

By: syahid ali

syahid ali — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:15:46 +0000

return receipt works for me. but it does not involved headers and depends on the mail server that you use.

By: keeyit

keeyit — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:36:54 +0000

My office is using outlook. So outlook can help to do everything for me..

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:21:51 +0000

BigNerd: That is an excellent tip indeed – thanks for sharing!

Meg & Yasser: Good point :)

By: Yasser

Yasser — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:08:15 +0000

I like specific subjects because I can tell them apart from spam easier.

By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:33:33 +0000

Hmmmm… I’ve noticed that a lot of spammers have been putting the recipient’s name in the subject line. Obviously, they do it because they think it works, too — but could that make it less useful for us non-spammers over time?

I definitely agree with you on making headers specific. I hate subject lines that say “Hi” or “What’s up” (though, I admit that I sometimes use it when I can’t think of anything better). Not only does it make it less likely that I’ll view the email right away, it makes it harder to find in my inbox later.

By: BigNerd

BigNerd — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:19:42 +0000

Nice post here. Good reminders. I get emails from my boss with the subject line: “???” when he has a question. I refer to these as the “Swoop and Poop” method. Quick entry, drop the crap and fly away. And the email with a blank subject line always make my teeth itch. You just never know what’s coming. Ugh.

When I send email outside of our company, I have to remind myself to flag my subject line as such:
“My Company Name: Insert short subject title here.”

With inter company email, I try to stay consistent with a one word format followed by a concise subject, e.g., “Request for info: Please submit …..” or
“Follow Up: Per your phone request on….” or
“Completed: Spreadsheet matrix for….” etc.
The key is thinking of ‘tags’ as subject line introductions. Not too many though. Keep it basic.
Now, if only others did this for me!