Email is not a new thing for the modern age people. But many people do not get the maximum usage of it as they are not aware about professional email writing according to my point of view. Some people lose their jobs, some lose their potential customers, some lose their opportunities and some lose their hopes due to non-professional emails they write. Therefore I thought that it will be better if I can provide few tips on how to write professional emails. I can’t promise you that I will let you know how to write professional emails 100% accurately. But I’m very confident that these tips will help you to improve your skills and ultimately you will benefit from it. Following are the tips that I have followed to write my professional emails.

ONE: You MUST, MUST, MUST create a mail signature. Mail signature is something which you put after your email body which indicates your identity. It is far more better than only writing your name. you can create your email signature like this.

Thank You (You can also use “Thanks & Regards” or simply “Regards” or “Cheers”)
John Cena{Your first name and last name}
Engineer{Your position in the company that you work or your own business}
Office: 123 456 789 Mobile:654 321 987{Your contact details (Phone numbers)}
www.yourcompany.com{Your company or your business web address if there is any}

Make sure that you put your country code for the telephone number(s) if your are sending the email to a foreigner.

TWO: Use a language style which is simple yet professional. This is very important if you are sending the email to a foreign person or a group of people whose mother language is not English (To a person like me).

THREE: Do the addressing in a polite and a professional manner. Ex. You can address the person as “Dear Sir” or if you know that person “Dear {Name of the person}” or else you can use “Hello” also with the name or Sir.

FOUR: Make sure that you put the subject in a way that it briefs the content of the email. The receiver of your email might be a very busy person. Normally those kind of people ignore some emails by looking at the subject line. You must make sure that this won’t happen to your email. Imagine what will happen if you send a critical email to your boss without a proper subject line and he ignores it.

These are the main things that you should consider when writing a professional email. You don’t need to consider about these tips if you are writing personal emails. Then the consequences might be vice-versa. Hope you got my point. Wish you can write better professional emails after reading this.

Live Help is a becoming more popular in many commercial websites where it will pay a major role in customer support of any commercial website. If any commercial website will benefit from the Live Help as customer problems are treated quickly and effectively compared to traditional email or telephone help. Live help will allow customer to do text/voice chat with the customer as soon as he/she has a problem in the product or service bought by him or her. It will be easier from the customer perspective as the customer’s cost will be very less compared to email or phone customer services specially for international customers. This will improve the customer satisfaction of the website and it will definitely improve the business. There are a lot of third party Live help service providers where they look after all the live help service for the website and charges an amount for their service. But you have to be careful when selecting Live help service providers. The best method is to checkout its statistics with stats site like Alexa. Following is a good Live chat service that I recommend.

But I advice you to check it and have a good look at it before paying for it. It offers a trial. Better to have the trial first. If you are satisfied with it, then you can pay for it.

Viral marketing is a marketing strategy used mainly in online businesses. But it is used in off-line businesses also. And it is proved to be one of the best marketing strategies by world top businesses. In this post I will give a brief introduction to viral marketing.Any consumer who purchase products or service either online or off-line, would love to have a free gift from the products or service provider which is something useful to him/her. The businessman can give away a free gift which is useful in some way to the customer along with the descriptions of the goods or services that he/she provides. The customer will surely like the gift and definitely pass it to his/her family members, Relations, Friends etc with a good recommendation. This will attract more customers to the product or service with a minimum cost for marketing and advertising.

Viral Marketing is heavily used in online business promotion. Thousands of web sites use this in many forms. The most commonly used Viral marketing techniques are listed below.

• Free e-books containing information important to the customer
• Free Softwares
• Free presentations
• Free training materials
• Referral bonuses
• Free movies and videos
• Social service projects

More and more new concepts of viral marketing will be added in the coming years. If you plan to start a new online business and promote your product or service, you can succeed with proper usage of viral marketing concepts with creativity added to it.

Affiliate Marketing is not a new thing for a person who is involved in e-commerce. But I thought to give a brief introduction to affiliate marketing from the things I learned. Please note that I’m still learning on this area and I might not cover the whole things.Affiliate marketing is a marketing technique mainly used in business promotion and marketing over the internet. If a company or an individual provides goods or services over the internet with a commercial purpose, it is a must to promote and market them to the consumers around the world to make profits and improve the business. If you do it by your self, it will cost a considerable amount of money and time. And you must also have a sound knowledge and experience in internet marketing. If you have no time,knowledge and enough money to market your product or service by your self, affiliate marketing is one of the best solution. In affiliate marketing, the goods or service provider allows people who owns web sites(webmasters) to promote their product or service through the website. Web masters are paid with a commission for every sale made through their website in return. The commission is generally a percentage value of the sale. And some goods or service providers even pay for the direction of users to their website, but it is comparably lesser than the commission.

If you plan to design a website and willing to make some profit from it (at least to cover the annual domain name and hosting charges), affiliate marketing is a very good concept. But you must have a sound knowledge on promoting your website and attracting people to it. Otherwise there would be no income for you from the affiliate goods or services that you promote.

My advice is, if you want to become an affiliate, you must be prepared well and do some background study on it. This post will be a small initiative for the people who wish to become affiliates. You will find more posts by me on this topic in the future.

This is a good affiliate center that I recommend.