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Though it may seem outdated, a professionally written business letter can make all the difference in landing a deal, building relationships with potential clients or successfully navigating a dispute.

There may be times during the course of running a business when you need to send a letter to a colleague or acquaintance that is business-related but social in nature. For example, if a client ...

Business letters are used to summarize meeting discussions, introduce new information and to set policies and procedures. Businesses use both postal mail and digital mail correspondence. Whenever a ...

More business communication than ever now takes place over email and instant-messaging tools, but more serious professional communication still often takes place with letters. If you need to write ...

Although most business communications occur digitally these days, knowing how to format and draft a formal business letter is still important. You never know when you might be asked to write a letter ...

When I was test-marketing my new Business Writing for Professionals workshop, feedback showed one of the things people appreciated most was the map of how to format a business letter — especially the ...

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® who's been writing about money management and small business operations for more than a decade. She writes the newsletter Healthy Rich about ...