Electronic mail, a system for sending messages from one individual to another via telecommunications links between computers or terminals. often abbreviated to e-mail, email, or simply mail, is a store-and-forward method of writing, sending, receiving and saving messages over electronic communication systems. The term "e-mail" applies to the Internet e-mail system.
Despite the disadvantages, email has become the most widely used medium of communication within the business world. A traditional direct postal delivery mail needs planning in advance. With e-mail you can plan it, send it and measure the results in just a few minutes. Another good reason to choose e-mail is that you can save a lot of money too. Email you can send as many as u want and just get charged for the internet usage for doing so. Most business workers today spend from one to two hours of their working day on email: reading, ordering, sorting, ‘re-contextualizing’ fragmented information, and writing e-mail. E-mail marketing campaigns give you instant access to results and metrics, and you start to receive information only seconds after sending the e-mails. many times postal mail is the only choice you have. But if you can e-mail it is generally speaking a much cheaper, agile and effective way to keep in touch with your customers, and prospects. E-mail is very simple to understand and like postal mail, e-mail solves two basic problems of communication: logistics and synchronization. The problem of logistics: Much of the business world relies upon communications between people who are not physically in the same building, area or even country; setting up and attending an in-person meeting, telephone call or conference call can be inconvenient, time-consuming, and costly. E-mail provides a way to exchange information between two or more people with no set-up costs and that is generally far less expensive than physical meetings or phone calls. The problem of synchronization:With real time...