Getting started …

by Christine Burgmer | Mar 18, 2014 | Allgemein | 0 comments

Do you always start an email with the same friendly greeting? I thought you might like some more ideas so that you don’t use the same words again and again.

Look here:

• I hope you are enjoying the spring weather.
• How are you? I hope you are well.
• I hope all is well.
• I hope you are fine.
• I hope your talk went well yesterday.
• I hope you enjoyed your trip to …
• It was lovely to meet up with you again in …
• I’m so pleased that we are in touch again.
• I trust you and your colleagues are fine.
• Greetings to you and your colleagues.
• Greetings from all of us at ….  [put your company’s name here].
• Greetings from … [put a person’s name here] and me.
• Welcome back to work. I hope you had a lovely holiday.

Do you have a favourite greeting?

Fill in or fill out?

by Christine Burgmer | Mar 13, 2014 | Allgemein | 3 comments

In British English you fill in a form. And in American English you fill out a form.

Two words

by Christine Burgmer | Mar 11, 2014 | Allgemein | 2 comments

I often see alot written as one word instead of two. This word doesn’t exist. It should be written as follows:

There are a lot of books on the shelf.
A lot of people love Fridays!

Words of wisdom

by Christine Burgmer | Mar 10, 2014 | Allgemein | 2 comments

“Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Please do not hesitate …

by Christine Burgmer | Mar 6, 2014 | Allgemein | 0 comments

… to contact me.”

This is a phrase is rather old (like the car in the picture!). I used it years ago, and you probably learned to use it, too. Perhaps you are still using it. But business language is changing fast. And today you’ll find that people are using a natural, more relaxed language.

I therefore suggest you use something like, “Please give me a call on … ” or just “Please call me on …”. Your readers will find that easier to understand, won’t they?