If you're thinking the email greeting isn't all that important and that it's silly to overthink it, you're wrong. How you begin an email sets the tone and may shape the recipient's perception of you.

The Single Best Way to Start an Email–and 18 Greetings That Will Immediately Turn People Off. How you begin an email may shape the recipient’s perception of you.

Warning: The way you start and finish your work emails directly affects how your message is received. Worse, your recipients may perceive your go-to greeting and sign-off choices as overly ...

The greetings you should avoid when writing an email. How you begin an email sets the tone and may shape the recipient's perception of you - and determine whether they keep on reading ...

Figuring out how to start an email — especially when you're writing to someone you don't know very well — can be a real challenge. Is "Hey" too casual? Is "Dear" overly formal? Is "Morning ...

Somewhere along the way, I quit using email greetings like “Dear” and fell into a pattern. If I don’t know the recipient, I start an email with “Hi (John).” If I know the recipient, I ...

You have to start the email with something, so you’re going with a begrudging “Hey,” instead of just skipping the greeting altogether. How most people end their work emails ...

Dear Miss Manners: What do you recommend to start emails for business, and for personal messages? And how to sign off? I often see "Hi" as the start and "Thank you" as the ending, and sometimes ...

Email can be an informal method of communication, but sometimes senders take it a little too far. For example, I routinely get emails from people I’ve never met that start with “Hey Steph ...