{"id":462,"date":"2006-11-29T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=462"},"modified":"2006-11-29T07:44:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T13:44:20","slug":"no-email-fridays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/no-email-fridays\/","title":{"rendered":"No Email Fridays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am an email junkie so I wasn&#8217;t aware of any &#8220;problems&#8221; until I read this BusinessWeek article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/06_49\/b4012096.htm?campaign_id=rss_null\" target=\"_blank\">*!#@ The E-Mail. Can We Talk?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem isn&#8217;t the distraction of spam or stuffed inboxes. Nor is it the potential for legal liability. The concern, say academics and management thinkers, is misinterpreted messages, as well as the degree to which e-mail has become a substitute for the nuanced conversations that are critical in the workplace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think almost all of us have experienced the misinterpreted email issue. I have sent them and ignited a thermonuclear response and I have received what was supposed to be an innocuous email and found myself hunting down the sender.<\/p>\n<p>There are many studies that discuss how words are actually only 10% or so of communication. Tonality, inflection, gestures and other nonverbal cues make up the vast majority of how we communicate. Obviously, those cues do not travel with an email. Of course, video email seems to be gathering some steam and may become more prominent in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a potential problem with the non-email approach:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clients are so impressed that they have started to visit and call his staffers more often, too. The biggest peril now? Getting trapped in telephone tag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember the days before the internet when the phone was king? I was a salesperson in a national territory and the phone was the only method for reaching a remote prospect. Telephone tag became a tedious task, along with gatekeepers, voicemails (if they had it) and snail mail letters.<\/p>\n<p>Writing that last sentence makes me feel old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an email junkie so I wasn&#8217;t aware of any &#8220;problems&#8221; until I read this BusinessWeek article &#8211; *!#@ The E-Mail. Can We Talk? The problem isn&#8217;t the distraction of spam or stuffed inboxes. Nor is it the potential for legal liability. The concern, say academics and management thinkers, is misinterpreted messages, as well as the degree to which e-mail has become a substitute for the nuanced conversations that are critical in the workplace. I think almost all of us have experienced the misinterpreted email issue. I have sent them and ignited a thermonuclear response and I have received what was supposed to be an innocuous email and found&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/no-email-fridays\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-sales-techniques","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1341,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/busting-a-sales-slump\/","url_meta":{"origin":462,"position":0},"title":"Busting A Sales Slump","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In all honesty, I am a streaky salesperson (at best).\u00a0 I have always been prone to peaks and valleys in my sales which speaks more to my abilities.\u00a0 Nonetheless, this ManageSmarter.com article addresses this problem with tips for breaking out of a slump. 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E-mail senders can also track who reads an email and can control the number of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":271,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/radio-shacks-junk-mail\/","url_meta":{"origin":462,"position":3},"title":"Radio Shack&#8217;s Junk Mail","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, maybe electronic communication has gone too far. I posted some Termination Tips a week ago that apparently were not read by Radio Shack's upper management team. Before that, I posted about Text Message Terminations - an employee was fired through her cell phone text messaging. Granted, it was from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":817,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/the-dawn-of-corporate-text-messaging\/","url_meta":{"origin":462,"position":4},"title":"The Dawn Of Corporate Text Messaging","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We are gradually moving\u00a0towards instant messaging for our internal communications at Select Metrix and away from email.\u00a0 Speed is a big part of this move for us, but email spam is also driving the change.\u00a0 I have a difficult time imagining email disappearing all together, but this article from Inc.com\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":814,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/email-names-to-avoid\/","url_meta":{"origin":462,"position":5},"title":"Email Names To Avoid","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"20 years ago we would not have been discussing this topic, but Foxnews.com posts this article:\u00a0 Quirky E-Mail Addresses Won't Help in the Hunt for Jobs. \u00a0I believe it was Mark Twain who said that common sense ain't so common.\u00a0 You would think job candidates would be wary of using\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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