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This tag should be used for question relating to the craft of writing letters, such as styles that are commonly used and common phrases used in business writing.

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How to open a new year's letter to customers?

If the purpose of the letter is to encourage the customer to make further enquiries or orders, something like : We would like to take the opportunity to wish you every success for 2018 or We … are looking forward to continuing our work together in the new year would be closer to what I think the letter would be intending to do, would look forward rather than backward, and would avoid any …
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What are proper ways to end a business letter?

The norm (UK, at least) always used to be that if the letter began "Dear Sir / Madam" it would end with "Yours faithfully", while a salutation of "Dear Mr. … "Thank you for your time" followed by "Sincerely" is a nice way to end a formal letter. …
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How to write a good cover letter?

If not, it could look obsequious and an overly flattering cover letter would be worse than no cover letter at all. … That's all a good cover letter needs to show. …
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