Btec Business Unit 4 Communication P7
P7 ‘Madness in the Method’
It is very important in business that individuals have lucrative methods of communication in order to convey important messages, and use these methods in order to interact with other businesses and the public. Methods of communication can also be commonly used to advertise and market, for example via the use of social networks which advertise to a wide range of individual, to through written posters which can be placed up in shop advertisements and on notice boards alike.
Electronic Methods of communication
Electronic methods of communication refer to more modern communication, which can be performed through a variety of more modern devices, such as Computers (and laptops), Telephone/mobile phones, Faxing machines etc. Electronic communication has only widely been available since the 20th centaury.
Email
Electronic mail (or e-mail or email) is an Internet service that allows those people who have an e-mail address to send and receive electronic letters. Those are much like postal letters, except that they are delivered much faster than regular mail, when sending over long distances, and email is usually free. Email is appropriate for use by anyone in a working or business environment. It enables the sender to transmit lengthy information to others for free, in a much quicker time that it would to manually mail someone.
Types of web based email companies include MSN/Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and AOL, which all allow people to sign up for free, and receive a free email address.
Email might be used within companies, to send notifications, or perhaps by ‘attaching’ word documents to other members of staff. Emails can also be used by businesses by way of marketing; e.g. businesses take customers email addresses in surveys, and then use the address they have given in order to send them information regarding the release of new products.
Telephone/Mobile
The telephone is a relatively modern form of communicating with
It is very important in business that individuals have lucrative methods of communication in order to convey important messages, and use these methods in order to interact with other businesses and the public. Methods of communication can also be commonly used to advertise and market, for example via the use of social networks which advertise to a wide range of individual, to through written posters which can be placed up in shop advertisements and on notice boards alike.
Electronic Methods of communication
Electronic methods of communication refer to more modern communication, which can be performed through a variety of more modern devices, such as Computers (and laptops), Telephone/mobile phones, Faxing machines etc. Electronic communication has only widely been available since the 20th centaury.
Electronic mail (or e-mail or email) is an Internet service that allows those people who have an e-mail address to send and receive electronic letters. Those are much like postal letters, except that they are delivered much faster than regular mail, when sending over long distances, and email is usually free. Email is appropriate for use by anyone in a working or business environment. It enables the sender to transmit lengthy information to others for free, in a much quicker time that it would to manually mail someone.
Types of web based email companies include MSN/Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and AOL, which all allow people to sign up for free, and receive a free email address.
Email might be used within companies, to send notifications, or perhaps by ‘attaching’ word documents to other members of staff. Emails can also be used by businesses by way of marketing; e.g. businesses take customers email addresses in surveys, and then use the address they have given in order to send them information regarding the release of new products.
Telephone/Mobile
The telephone is a relatively modern form of communicating with