{"id":1346,"date":"2010-11-29T10:21:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T23:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2019-04-23T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T08:53:05","slug":"sending-a-christmas-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/11\/sending-a-christmas-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending a Christmas message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Xmas_in_envelope.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3226\" title=\"Sending Christmas in an envelope\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Xmas_in_envelope-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Putting some Christmas cheer in an envelope\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Xmas_in_envelope-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Xmas_in_envelope-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Xmas_in_envelope.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re heading for Christmas and most businesses are trying to be prepared for the December rush.<\/p>\n<p>Many businesses send a Christmas email to their customers, supporters and suppliers so here are some tips for writing your email&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>if possible, <a title=\"get names right\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/10\/their-names-are-precious\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use the person&#8217;s name<\/a> so your Christmas message is personal<\/li>\n<li>even if your usual business communications are formal, make this message casual and clearly from you &#8211; you are sending the\u00a0email in appreciation and to share goodwill, so don&#8217;t think of it as a business document. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/category\/grammar-details-2\/\">spelling, grammar<\/a> and making sense are still basic elements of your email<\/li>\n<li>if you and\/or your customers are not Christian or simply don&#8217;t believe in Christmas, send a &#8220;season&#8217;s greetings&#8221; message instead. Even better, make it an &#8220;end of year&#8221; message<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"short &amp; sweet\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/07\/short-and-sweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep it short<\/a> &#8211; this isn&#8217;t the time for a sales pitch or news, just give your best wishes and leave it at that<\/li>\n<li>still include the basics of a good email &#8211; <a title=\"subject lines for emails\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/email-subjects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">useful subject line<\/a>, unsubscribe details (if you are using a list rather than truly personal emails) and contact details<\/li>\n<li>put your message in the body of the email, not as an attachment or in a graphic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adding some cheery graphics and\/or colour is nice, but not essential; if you do add graphics, make sure the email doesn&#8217;t become too big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re heading for Christmas and most businesses are trying to be prepared for the December rush. Many businesses send a Christmas email to their customers, supporters and suppliers so here are some tips for writing your email&#8230; if possible, use the person&#8217;s name so your Christmas message is personal even if your usual business communications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1425,57,60],"tags":[140,222,691,1469,141,1470],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-communications","category-newsletter-content","category-writing","tag-christmas","tag-email","tag-message","tag-sending-a-christmas-message","tag-xmas","tag-xmas-message"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12456,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/12456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}