11 Classic Email Lines That Sound Insincere And What to Use Instead

11 Classic Email Lines That Sound Insincere And What to Use Instead My job requires me to send oodles of email cold emails, follow up emails, emails with reports attached... every kind of email you could imagine. I cringe at how cheesy and insincere theyre starting to look. Its difficult to be original, authentic and cordial in an email. Lowering the defenses of a stranger jaded by too many encounters with slick-sounding sales calls is tough, and falling back on overused email phrases is just so easy. Here are 11 insincere sounding lines Im trying to eliminate from my emails and why Im making the cut.?1. Hope you are well.With this line, I want to express that I care, but it comes across like Im forcing a relationship. I show mora respect for my recipients time by making my request quickly instead of padding my email with this phrase.2. Can I pick your brain? This line says I need your advice but I am nervous to ask for it. Anyone receiving this email knows I want their expertise f or free no sense pretending otherwise. Ill leave out the platitude and come right out and ask for it.3. Just checking in.Obviously Im checking in, because I sent you this email. I want your attention and feel like youre taking too long to give it to me. Im just going to ask straight up for what I want.?4. Attached, please find.Ive use this phrase for so many years that its automatic which means its outdated and I need to stop. Also, its unnecessarily polite and formal. Ive started using, Ive attached the report to this message.5. Wanted to touch base.Unless Im recapping the company softball game, Im notlage using this worn out phrase anymore. Instead, Ill make my request directly May I call you tomorrow at 100PM?6. Sorry to bother you.Im not sorry. If I were, I would not send you this email. What Im really sorry about is that you havent given me what I need and now I feel like I have to send you another email. Im going to omit this passive-aggressive phrase from my email vocabulary .7. Please dont hesitate to contact me.Im trying to be polite, but this is too polite. I sound stale and fake. Ill stick with please contact me and include my contact information.8. Thanks in advance.Which means I expect you to do this. This phrase should not be sent to anyone who isnt my direct report and even then, it smacks of giving orders.9. Im circling back.Its the same as saying, Sorry for the double email. It conjures up pictures of vultures flying in circles over road kill. Im going to stop hovering and put Follow Up in the subject line.?10. As per my last email.You replied to my four sentence email, yet didnt answer the question I asked. Since you wont stop breezing through my messages, Ill just copy and paste the question from my original message, leave the churlish phrase out and resend it?.11. Best or Regards.Really? Am I so busy I only have time to type one word in closing? Or Im not smart enough to save a more thoughtful closing as parte of my automatically embedded s ignature block? Ill stick with thank you. Its both sincere and polite.Are you guilty of using any of these phrases? Theyre so common because were asking for something and want to be polite, but the most respectful thing we can do is not waste our recipients time and rethink our vocabulary.