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Email Subject Line Exercise

The following questions guide you through the process of writing a well-constructed, useful subject line.  Make up your own scenario for sending an email, and then write the answers in the boxes after each question.

What is your email about?

Is this email a call to action, or will itl be purely informational?  Explain what you want to accomplish by sending this email.

Now decide which details you want included in the subject line of your email.  Then write a brief one-line title for your email.  This is your subject line.
 

 

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