Did you know that someone’s name is one of the most precious words to them?<\/p>\n
If you don’t believe me, think about how you feel when you are ‘treated like a number’, someone pronounces your name poorly and you get a letter with\u00a0your name wrong in some way.<\/p>\n
I once got a letter that referred to Mr T Hughes, opened with Tash and had Mrs Hughes on the envelope. I didn’t like being called Mr but the lack of care shown by the inconsistency was very poor.<\/p>\n
Getting people’s names right is a sign of respect, and in business it also shows attention to detail matters to you<\/strong>. So consider the following tips:<\/p>\n PS On a humorous note, I received a phone call a few days ago where the person asked “Is that Mr Tash Hughes” (badly pronounced) Did you know that someone’s name is one of the most precious words to them? If you don’t believe me, think about how you feel when you are ‘treated like a number’, someone pronounces your name poorly and you get a letter with\u00a0your name wrong in some way. I once got a letter that referred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1425,70],"tags":[222,164,203,1094,434,120],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bit-off-track","category-business-communications","category-grammar-details-2","tag-email","tag-letters","tag-names","tag-personalise","tag-pronounce","tag-spelling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n
\nI answered “No” thinking – do I really sound like a Mr?
\nNext question “Can I speak to Tash Hughes?”
\nMy answer “You are – I am Tash but I’m not Mr.”
\n“Oh, I thought you were a boy, Goodbye” and hung up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"