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Re:A Face-To-Face Request Is 34 Times More Successful Than a... by hliyan on Friday April 14, 2017 @02:39AM (#14113002)
There is a big difference between a request to fill a survey and corporate communication with a paper trail. For important requests, I've found the opposite to be true -- formal email requests get way more follow up than verbal ones.
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Re:A Face-To-Face Request Is 34 Times More Successful Than a... by davidgerard on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:29AM (#14113820)
YMMV. In business I've found the headline seems about right - I can send a two-paragraph email that sets out precisely what's needed, but wasting half an hour of my life on a meeting tremendously increases the chances they'll bloody do it.
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