What are the four important elements of a business e-mail?

What are the four important elements of a business e-mail?

Tim Burress (E-mail Etiquette and Organization Specialist) gives expert video advice on: What are the four important elements of a business e-mail?; What is a good 'greeting' to use in business e-mail? and more...

The four important elements of a business e-mail begins with "What is the action?", in other words explain what you are asking them to do. Then they go on to ask themselves why you are asking them to do this. So the next thing would be supporting the action by qualifying why you have asked them to do this. And finally then a nice closing is appropriate, such as "Hope you had a great weekend".