Stop saying ‘hope you’re well’ in emails—to get attention and gain influence, do this instead

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Stop saying ‘hope you’re well’ in emails—to get attention and gain influence, do this instead

cnbc.com/2025/06/19/stop-saying-hope-youre-well-in-emails-heres-what-to-do-instead.html

You're about to send an email. Maybe it’s to a client, a hiring manager, or a colleague you haven’t spoken to in a while. Reflexively, you start typing, “Hope you're well.”
While you may genuinely mean it, it doesn’t give the recipient a reason to keep reading — and in some cases, it…

This story appeared on cnbc.com, 2025-06-19 13:30:01.