The Beautiful Art of Sending a Well-Crafted Email — When so Many Others Are Sending Trash

This is how to write a knockout email that gets a response.

Tim Denning
The Startup
Published in
7 min readJun 17, 2019

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Writing an email that gets someone’s attention and achieves your goal is not easy. We all have email on our phone or computer, yet many of us treat email with a form of domestic violence. We take something that is beautiful and spit all over it with our poor choice of words and selfish sentences.

I love writing emails. The look of that beautiful blank email with its empty subject line and loads of empty white space makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Why? Because I’ve used email to contact some of the hardest to reach people.

Email created the opportunity I was given to be a blogger; email got me the career I have; email got me a romantic partner; email changed my life and it can change yours too once you know how to use it.

Here’s how to send a well-crafted email:

Think about the other person

O-M-G! This is the most important step that everyone misses: it’s not about you. The subtle art of writing an email that is worthy of the worlds greatest art prize is to think about the other person first.

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Tim Denning
The Startup

Aussie Blogger with 1B+ views that made me 7-figures — Get my free email course: https://timdenning.com/1k-mb