The Art of the Unignorable Email: How to combine AI and EQ to beat the battle of the inbox: 2 (The Story Spotters) - Softcover

Pullan, David; McKechnie, Sarah Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908770872 ISBN 13: 9781908770875

Publisher: Intellectual Perspective Press, 2025

Synopsis

Your emails are being ignored. And it's killing your career.

Every day you send carefully crafted messages into the digital void. They land in inboxes already groaning with 100+ unread emails. AI gatekeepers filter them as "low priority". Recipients skim the subject line and hit delete.

Meanwhile that critical project stalls. That budget request goes unanswered. That brilliant idea dies in someone's spam folder.

It's time to become unignorable!

"The Art of the Unignorable Email" shows how the DNA framework that communications experts David Pullan and Sarah Jane McKechnie first wrote about in their Business Book of the Year shortlisted "The DNA of Engagement" can transform your written messages from inbox clutter to must-read communication that drives action.

This isn't another boring business writing etiquette guide - it's your strategic competitive advantage in the attention economy.

Inside you'll discover:

• Five powerful inversions of the DNA that match any business situation
• Before and after transformations that show exactly what works
• Ready to use templates for everything from crisis management to stakeholder buy-in
• Prompts that combine AI's efficiency with human emotional intelligence
• The "Monday Morning Test" that predicts if your email will be opened or ignored
• Ways to bypass the AI inbox guardians and connect with real humans

It's perfect for:

• Middle managers caught between leadership and their teams
• Project leaders coordinating cross-functional chaos
• Anyone who is sick of sending follow-ups to their follow-ups
• Professionals who know their ideas are brilliant - if only people would read them

This book bridges the gap between robotic AI-generated emails and time-consuming personal messages.

In just 146 pages you will discover the secrets that will help you write powerful messages in minutes rather than hours, get responses rather than silence, and build your reputation as someone who gets things done.

Stop hoping your emails get read. Start knowing they will.

With specific advice on how to manage up, down and across, plus a bonus app that will tell you exactly which email to write when, this is the only email guide you will ever need.

Join the thousands of professionals who've already transformed from "just another sender" to a trusted partner whose messages stop the scroll and always get priority attention.

Your unignorable future starts with your next email.

Now includes access to The "What Email" Advisor App, downloadable prompts for all of the DNA inversions that have been quality tested on five major LLMS, all of the templates mentioned in the book and a report that compares performance levels across the LLMs.

About this title

About the Authors

DAVID PULLAN is a leadership communication consultant and recovering actor who travels the globe helping his clients add feelings to their facts and turn explanation into inspiration.His partner in 'crime' is Sarah Jane McKechnie, who he met over a tea urn in a rehearsal room in the early 1990s.The stories they told each other that morning of living in countries such as Italy, Greece, Turkey and Australia, as well as performing in films with Shirley MacLaine and on stage to Henry Kissinger and his Secret Service entourage made them think they'd probably met a friend for life.Little did they know.Many adventures and one son later they founded The Story Spotters with the single aim of helping leaders and their teams save their great ideas from the threat of extinction through the science, art and craft of story-based techniques.Today they work with everyone from start ups to FTSE100s helping them face the challenge of connecting and standing out in an increasingly busy and noisy world.

In the early 1990s SARAH JANE MCKECHNIE met David Pullan in a rehearsal room.The stories they told each other that morning of living in countries such as Italy, Greece, Turkey and Australia, as well as performing in films with Shirley MacLaine and on stage to Henry Kissinger and his Secret Service entourage made them think they'd probably met a firm friend.But life had bigger plans for them.Many adventures and one son later they founded The Story Spotters with the single aim of helping leaders and their teams save their great ideas from the threat of extinction through the science, art and craft of story-based techniques.Since then they've travelled the globe and worked with everyone from start ups to FTSE100s helping them face the challenge of connecting and standing out in an increasingly busy and noisy world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellectual Perspective Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908770872
• ISBN 13: 9781908770875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146