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Numerous situations arise in professional business settings that necessitate formal correspondence. You might need to send a letter to an executive in the company requesting their presence at an event ...

You wouldn't send a casually worded letter using no recognizable format to another business person if you were discussing competing for a government contract. If you want to be taken seriously as the ...

Business letters are used to summarize meeting discussions, introduce new information and to set policies and procedures. Businesses use both postal mail and digital mail correspondence. Whenever a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. More business communication than ever now takes place over email and instant-messaging tools, but ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Editor’s Note: The following article is excerpted from Kim Gordon’s latest book, Maximum Marketing, Minimum Dollars, (Kaplan Publishing).