The AMA Handbook of Business
Letters
Freeze up at the prospect of
writing a business letter? Join the club. Millions of accomplished professionals can work
wonders in a conference room, make magic over the phone, and turn lunch into the most
profitable hour of the day but the thought of putting pen to paper (or fingers to
keyboard) fills them with dread.
If written communication is
the bane of your existence, The AMA Handbook of Business Letters, now in a fully updated
Third Edition, is destined to be the most important resource in your office. Offering
guidelines and tutorials on the basics of letter-writing, from addressing and formatting
to style and grammar, this treasure chest is also filled with hundreds of ready-to-use,
fully customizable letters, memos, faxes, and. e-mails ideal for every conceivable
business situation.
What's more, the Third
Edition comes with a CD-ROM featuring each and every one of the more than 365 model
letters in the book. Just pop the CD into your computer, choose a model, and in just
moments you will have a fully executed, flawlessly crafted letter, memo, fax, or e-mail.
You can customize as much as you like, or simply enter the name and address and hit
"print."
The AMA Handbook of Business
Letters
is a soup-to-nuts solution to
all your communication needs, offering you:
- Sales,
marketing, and public relations letters that get noticed
- Customer-service
letters to resolve complaints and breed loyalty
- Credit
and collection letters that clarify account status and command immediate attention
- Letters
to vendors and suppliers to request price quotes, resolve billing and shipping issues,
place orders, negotiate terms, and more.
So if your message gets
muddled when you put it in writing; or if you prefer to spend your waking hours mastering
something other than the finer points of grammar; or if you're just too darn busy to craft
compelling business correspondence yourself, TheAMA Handbook of Business Letters is all
you need to get your point across time after time.
Jeffrey L. Seglin is the
author of The Good, the Bad, and Your Business, and a regular columnist for The New York
Times and Fortune magazine. An Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies,
he also teaches magazine publishing in the graduate department of writing, literature, and
publishing at Emerson College in Boston. edward coleman is an English teacher in Norcross,
Georgia.
518 pages + CD