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Poll: Do you send Christmas e-greetings to your clients or it is rather up to them to greet their vendors?
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Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise
België
Local time: 10:48
Lid 2020
Frans naar Nederlands
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Actually, no Dec 22, 2024

I will always express my wishes when I'm in direct contact with my clients during the end-of-year season, but I don't create specific general e-mails.

I hate empty words and general e-mails that are clearly not personalized are exactly that. I've already received some greetings stating something like "Your contribution to this year's success was so valuable", while I did perhaps 2 small tasks over the whole year. I'm not sure those greetings are truly intended to generate thoughts i... See more
I will always express my wishes when I'm in direct contact with my clients during the end-of-year season, but I don't create specific general e-mails.

I hate empty words and general e-mails that are clearly not personalized are exactly that. I've already received some greetings stating something like "Your contribution to this year's success was so valuable", while I did perhaps 2 small tasks over the whole year. I'm not sure those greetings are truly intended to generate thoughts in my head like "Get lost".

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Pavel Mondschein
Anton Konashenok
Philip Lees
Angie Garbarino
Maria Laura Curzi
Rachel Waddington
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 09:48
Lid 2007
Engels naar Portugees
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Other Dec 22, 2024

The tradition of sending Christmas cards is all but gone. When I started out in this profession, I used to send handwritten Christmas cards to clients, suppliers and colleagues, after a while I started sending e-cards only to the most important clients. Nowadays, like Lieven, I will send my best wishes to the clients who contact me during the end-of-year season.

Lieven Malaise
m1nerva
Philip Lees
WolfgangS
Maria Laura Curzi
Rachel Waddington
 
Mokhles Sadek
Mokhles Sadek  Identity Verified
Spanje
Local time: 10:48
Lid 2024
Spaans naar Arabisch
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in response to Dec 22, 2024

From my point of view yes i do, because you have to keep in touch with your clients and that is a good opportunity and that is how you maintain your client portfolio.

Christine Andersen
Simon Turner
Robert Rietvelt
 
Maria Laura Curzi
Maria Laura Curzi
Argentinië
Local time: 06:48
Engels naar Spaans
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I don't like spamming Dec 23, 2024

I consider all those PR/marketing emails like pure spam, so I don't send them.

Also, I don't like to get them, so this is the time of the year when I usually unsubscribe from all those services that only send these spam emails, without any communication during the whole year.

Rachel Waddington
Ersin Berber
Chris Spurgin
Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
 


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