How to respond to a RSVP By Walethia Aquil~Business Etiquette Expert How to respond to an RSVP Originally posted November 17, 2010 on the Grace and Charm Blog This holiday season you will receive many party invitations. Be sure to RSVP! Holiday parties are the perfect opportunity to network and connect with the influences in your industry. RSVP-From the French it means please reply! The host/hostess wants to know if you are attending. Reply promptly, with a day or two of receiving an invitation How to respond-Reply in the manner indicated on the invitation. * RSVP and no response card: a handwritten note to the host at the return address on the envelope. * Response Card: fill in and reply by the date indicated and return in enclosed envelope. * RSVP with phone: telephone and speak to the person, do not rely on answering machines. * RSVP with email: you may accept or decline electronically. * Regrets only: reply only if you cannot attend. If your host/hostess doesn’t hear from you, they are expecting you! No shows are accepted only in emergences. * Call your host/hostess immediately. Be considerate of the hostess and RSVP; you will stand out from the crowd...and you will remain on the VIP list. The Grace and Charm Academy is the only mid Michigan institution providing business etiquette and image training that prepares professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners with the critical behaviors necessary to build lasting business relationships. Would you like more tips like these visit Grace and Charm. Be sure to request your Business Etiquette E-course. Originally posted November 17, 2010 on Grace and Charm Blog

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How to respond to a RSVPBy Walethia Aquil~Business Etiquette Expert

How to respond to an RSVP

Originally posted November 17, 2010 on the Grace and Charm Blog

This holiday season you will receive many party invitations. Be sure to RSVP!

Holiday parties are the perfect opportunity to network and connect with the influences in your industry. RSVP-From the French it means please reply! The host/hostess wants to know if you are attending. Reply promptly, with a day or two of receiving an invitation

How to respond-Reply in the manner indicated on the invitation.

* RSVP and no response card: a handwritten note to the host at the return address on the envelope. * Response Card: fill in and reply by the date indicated and return in enclosed envelope. * RSVP with phone: telephone and speak to the person, do not rely on answering machines. * RSVP with email: you may accept or decline electronically. * Regrets only: reply only if you cannot attend. If your host/hostess doesn’t hear from you, they are expecting you! No shows are accepted only in emergences. * Call your host/hostess immediately.

Be considerate of the hostess and RSVP; you will stand out from the crowd...and you will remain on the VIP list.

The Grace and Charm Academy is the only mid Michigan institution providing business

etiquette and image training that prepares professionals, entrepreneurs and business

owners with the critical behaviors necessary to build lasting business relationships.

Would you like more tips like these visit Grace and Charm. Be sure to request your Business Etiquette E-course. Originally posted November 17, 2010 on Grace and Charm Blog

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