{"id":1188,"date":"2011-01-18T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2015-07-07T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T23:12:00","slug":"7-things-to-avoid-in-a-professional-thank-you-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/7-things-to-avoid-in-a-professional-thank-you-note\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Things to Avoid In a Professional Thank You Note"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"Elegant<\/a>Thank you notes can be one of the trickiest things on the planet to come up with. You don\u2019t want to come off too impersonal, but you don\u2019t want to be too personal either. You do want to express your appreciation to the client or vendor that you\u2019ve done business with, however you don\u2019t want that appreciation to overstep or sound stilted. When it comes to making a professional thank you note, here are some tips that will help:<\/p>\n

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  1. Don\u2019t get personal with their name. Unless you\u2019ve known them as friends for \"Classic<\/a>years and know they don\u2019t mind, addressing someone as \u201cDave\u201d or \u201cJen\u201d as a diminutive of their name may be offensive.<\/li>\n
  2. When using stock thank you cards, make sure there\u2019s nothing about them that could be misconstrued as overly political or have religious overtones<\/li>\n
  3. Speaking of religious overtones, unless you know someone\u2019s faith, you run the risk of alienating a lot of clients if you use any religious references in your notes. While expressing faith is one thing, putting it into a thank you note may not be appreciated<\/li>\n
  4. Don\u2019t sound desperate or beg for their business. Stick to the point and thank them for the business they\u2019ve already given you. Some may even see the thank you card as a plea for more business in and of itself<\/li>\n
  5. Keep it simple. A long, drawn out note of any kind, let alone a thank you card is going to be overbearing<\/li>\n
  6. Don\u2019t send a generic message that is obviously sent \u201cto everyone\u201d. Even though you don\u2019t want to be too personal, even a professional thank you note will at least use their name<\/li>\n
  7. Don\u2019t make them cheap looking. Use good paper or card stock and a quality font. When you\u2019re expressing appreciation to a customer or vendor, you want them to respect your company<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Thanks<\/a>There are lots of other things to avoid that are quite obvious. Language rules, check your spelling, don\u2019t use slang or other words that may offend the recipient and above all, don\u2019t expect a reply back from them. Customers and vendors do want to know you appreciate doing business with them, and will continue to do so when they need to. Professional thank you notes aren\u2019t hard to do, and definitely show people you do care and appreciate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Thank you notes can be one of the trickiest things on the planet to come up with. You don\u2019t want<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing-promotion-techniques","tag-thank-you-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15501,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/15501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}