E-Mail as a Gatekeeper

Your customer may have an assistant who serves as a screener for e-mails to save time for a high-level decision maker. To avoid e-mails that look like spam, make your subject lines intriguing, compelling, and professional, not too wordy. Obviously, you never leave a subject line blank. If you do, the spam filter will delete the e-mail or the customer will.

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