Getting more Animation work is tough. There’s lots of work out there, but on the other hand, there’s lots of people competing for the work. And in amongst the serious players I get emailing our company about work, this is is the kind of thing I get around once a day into our generic inbox.
- No subject line
- Sent to generic email address
- Sent to multiple people without using bcc
- Sender name not capitalised
- Weird intro
- Link and attachments which look like spam
I wonder how this person will ever find work?
The trick to getting more animation work
So here are some simple things for you to check. First, when you send an email, does the recipient see your name in full with capital letters? I often get emails that are just listed like this:
- Tim G
- andrea
- [email protected]
Make sure within the settings of your email that your display name look professional. If in doubt, send someone you know an email and ask them how it looks. Though remember, if you are in their address book, you’ll appear as according to how they’ve put you in their book.
Never send emails to generic email accounts. Try and find a name. LinkedIn is a good way of looking up people at a particular agency, and you can guess their emails from the company’s domain. It’s usually firstname@ or firstname.lastname@.
If you can help it, don’t send bulk “Hi all” emails. Individualise them.
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