Comments on: 5 Tips for E-mailing Busy People

By: Daniel Lu

Daniel Lu — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:50:07 +0000

Tim,

Thank you very much. After reading 4HWW, I no longer fear contacting “famous” people. I’m now working on building a school in South Africa but needed some help fundraising. I emailed Seth Godin for some advice on raising money. Though he did not respond back with advice, he promised to blog about it, which I never asked him to do.

Regardless of what comes of it, I feel fortunate to have read your book, for revealing to me that it doesn’t take much to contact “celebrities.” As for Seth, I’ll send him another email.

With respect,

Dan Lu

By: John Marlow

John Marlow — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:30:39 +0000

It’s a little cumbersome to get to, but if you’ll go to http://benderspink.com/, enter the site and click on SUBMIT SCRIPTS, you’ll find a fabulous (handwritten!) example of how not to write to extraordinarily busy people. It’s both funny and sad…

By: Thoughts on Emails « RyanHoliday.net

Thoughts on Emails « RyanHoliday.net — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:07:47 +0000

[...] did a great post on this a few weeks ago but he’s missing one thing: Humanness. For young people, your emails [...]

By: Liz DiAlto

Liz DiAlto — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:10:19 +0000

Thank you so much for this great post and example. I am a first time author trying to bolster my writing resume before I start contacting literary agents with my proposal. I have been reaching out to magazines for writing opportunities or to be a fitness expert consult. Your post really helped me improve the quality of the emails I’m sending out. I’m looking forward to a more positive response!

By: Mehul Kar

Mehul Kar — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:59:04 +0000

I would never write an email that long to a busy person. There is so much unnecessary text in there for the sake of being grammatically correct and proper. It’s a waste.

It has a nice flow though.