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How To Remind Someone Through Email

Here's the quickest, easiest, and non-douchiest way to remind someone to respond to your email:

Send them back an email that says:

   bump.

That's it!  Just reply back to the email thread with the word "bump."

I learned this a while ago from my friend Sungho.  Leave it up to an Asian to come up with something so elegantly simple ;-)

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The first time I ever saw this "bump" method in action was in 2011 when Sungho sent me a time-critical email......and I didn't respond:

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A quick "bump" from him, and the burden once again fell onto me to respond.  AND he didn't sound annoying!

So next time you need a time-critical email answered, give it a bump!

Use this trick wisely my friend,

Neville Medhora

 

P.S. Share this trick with your co-workers:

https://copywritingcourse.com/how-to-remind-someone-through-email/

 

P.P.S. Check this out if you wanna see some other people's email open rates.

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Guest Kalo

Guest Kalo

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It works!

I've just used it on Reddit DM and I got an instant reply in an hour or so.

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Guest Andre

Guest Andre

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Neville, where do you write "bump" ...in the subject line or the body? And does this do anything technically (i.e. causes email to resend etc) or is this just a keyword that people typically respond to?
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Guest Rod
Of course, the "kicker" to your suggestion would be to explain (what I had to immediately look up, for I'd never seen this term before), is that "BUMP" is (apparently) an acronym for "Bring Up My Post" ( i.e., "please check out the e-mail I recently sent to you"). The "sub-text", of course, being "...which you did NOT previously answer." But, as you well noted, it's a delightfully NON-aggressive way of saying that! Thanks!
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Guest Kika

Neville bout to get me fired 😂

I'm looking to try it out this week.

Bring on some some more Email tips. Thanks Neville!

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