[socialmediaking]

I recommend using a free service called SpyPig to include an invisible image in the email that will notify you when the email is opened (if images are enabled). I usually wait about 10 minutes after the notification and call the client or lead and ask them if they had a minute to check my email. They usually say something like "Yeah you have perfect timing, I just took a look at it..." It's a pretty slick little trick http://www.spypig.com/ Good luck!

[jat850]

How does that get around a number of email clients flagging the warning that 'this email contains links to external images' or things of that nature? (Gmail does it, Thunderbird does it, I'm sure most modern email clients have that).

To me that would come across as, at best, annoying and at worst, suspicious.

[lftl]

Instead of an invisible tracking image make it part of your signature, like a company logo or something similar.

[wnight]

You'd need to give it a distinct filename or something, but it's otherwise fairly reasonable. But I still wouldn't see it because I've got all external images turned off. And then you'd either need a redundant text sig or risk clients not having your phone number, etc.

I email clients a passworded URL they can download documents from instead of attaching the documents. Partly so I can send someone files of any size and without attachment screening, and partly for delivery tracking.

[Tawheed]

Tout will do that for you, automatically.

[lacerus]

Oh, you're good.

[melvinmt]

Whoa, I think calling people after only 10 mins after I've sent the mail is pretty obtrusive. Surely I would give them enough time to read the mail, think about it and give me a reply whenever they're able to (within a reasonable amount of time, say 2 hours).

[lacerus]

He calls 10 minutes after they have read the email as per SpyPig. That we he does indeed have perfect timing.

[esrauch]

I would make a special case for if they read it immediately; they will still perceive you as calling immediately after sending it since you aren't revealing that you used the image to find out that they read it.

[Confusion]

I often look at mails, move them to 'ToDo' and then only read them later. ToDo means it has no priority and I may get to it tomorrow. An immediate call would force me to context switch and I don't think I would like it.