Express Yourself With Your E-mail Closing
The phrase you use to close your professional e-mail messages can add a touch of personality or continue the theme of your brand, but finding the right one isn’t always easy to do. With the frequent and often informal use of e-mail, some people have broken away from formal closings for professional e-mail messages. If you are in my email list, you may have noticed I’ve been using a variety of closings lately. I “went out” in search of new ways to close my e-mails and thought I would share the more professional phrases I found. I hope you might find one or two that fit you well.
The ones we all are likely familiar with…
- Sincerely
- Respectfully
- Best
- Regards
- Best wishes
You get the idea. We’ve all seen them and their variations, right? For a lot of us these are perfectly fine and appropriate closings. However, some business professionals like service providers and advice givers are looking for a more personal or catchy way to close their e-mails.
Here are a few that are a bit out of the norm but still can be used professionally…
- Hope to hear from you soon
- Until next time
- At your service
- With confidence
- Your colleague
- To your success
For “special” occasions…
- Be well
- Kind thoughts
- Thinking the best for you
- Wishing you the best
- Enthusiastically
- With kindest regards
- Safe travelling
- Wishing you a safe journey
- I hope to receive news from you soon
- Thank you for your kindness and consideration
- In Gratitude
- Cheers
The following are great for those with inspirational roles…
- Onward and upward
- Shine on
- Love & light
- Best wishes for your future
- Smiles and laughter
- Stay on the road ‘cos its going somewhere nice
- Happiness is a choice
- Be prosperous, fare well
- Be continually prosperous
- Peace and progress
- Keep smiling
- Grace and peace
- In peace
- Keeping it real
- Here’s to always having loving ways and perfect days
- With joy
- Live well, laugh often and be merry
- May blessings & smiles be yours
- Seize the day
- Cheers
And finally, my personal favorite…
- Get me a mars bar while you’re out!
(OK, not very professional but a girl has to try!)
If you don’t feel all tingly about any of the above mentioned, try choosing one word that describes what you do and build on it with a personal touch or perhaps your company slogan or tagline will do nicely. I would love to hear your out of the ordinary closings, so please leave a comment and share!
My time is up and I thank you for yours!
Melanie
P.S. Thank you, Lisa for inspiring me on this topic. It’s been fun searching for creative new ways to close my e-mails!
lotusflower responds:
Posted: November 3rd, 2007 at 5:08 pm →
Hello,
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Yes, I do a ‘Cheers!’ for closing my blog comments, reviews, sometimes email. I am not sure though if I consistently do it for my posts.
I use Cheers because it evokes feelings of happiness, lightheartedness and warmth. Precisely, the very same emotions I want myself and other to feel. I guess in much the same way that your writing style bring on personal warmth to your readers.
Cheers!
Melanie responds:
Posted: November 4th, 2007 at 10:19 am →
Hello lotusflower,
I like the Cheers closing as well! I’m glad you enjoy the blog and I hope you will come back often. I’ll check in on your blog as well.
Best to you!
tk responds:
Posted: November 14th, 2007 at 2:06 am →
i though this was great until you didnt correctly spell “you’re” in your “favorite”
sigh.
Melanie responds:
Posted: November 16th, 2007 at 12:29 am →
I was just seeing if anyone was paying attention!
Thanks, tk. *smiles*
Idetrorce responds:
Posted: December 15th, 2007 at 1:35 pm →
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Melanie responds:
Posted: December 17th, 2007 at 3:20 pm →
OK
What is it you disagree with exactly?
In peace!
John Svid responds:
Posted: February 26th, 2008 at 5:12 am →
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I’m sorry for little off-topic, but I want to ask you about design of this site.
Did you make this template yourself or got from any templates website?
Looks pretty cool for me. Wonderful well this reading.
Melanie responds:
Posted: February 29th, 2008 at 10:32 am →
Hi John!
I’m glad you like the site and appreciate your message. The template was done by Mike Chermin and there’s a link to him at the bottom of the page. He has a super blog with lots of informational articles on blogging and the like, check it out.
p.s. Sorry, I don’t allow links of the type you previously posted, but if you have another more appropriate I’m happy to post it for you.
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