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- Thank a customer or client
- Thank someone for a compliment or praise
- Thank someone for a favor
- Thank someone for a gift
- Thank someone for a job well done
- Thank someone for a philanthropic contribution
- Thank someone for a pleasant occasion
- Thank someone for a referral or recommendation
- Thank someone for a reply or response
- Thank someone for a speech or presentation
- Thank someone for accepting your advice or recommendation
- Thank someone for advice or a suggestion
- Thank someone for an appointment, interview, or meeting
- Thank someone for an award, bonus, or raise
- Thank someone for an inquiry
- Thank someone for expressions of sympathy
- Thank someone for goods or materials received
- Thank someone for help or support
- Thank someone for hospitality
- Thank someone for information
- Thank someone for media exposure
- Thank someone for visiting a place or attending an event
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Business or Work
- Thank a business for good service, low prices, or professional courtesies
- Thank a customer for purchasing a product or service
Service
- Thank a doctor or health care facility
- Thank a religious leader
- Thank a retiree for his or her service
- Thank someone for helping in your absence
- Thank someone for volunteer work
- Thank someone for writing a reference or recommendation for you
Miscellaneous
- Accept a formal invitation to a social event
- Accept a job offer
- Accept a request to serve in an honorary position
- Accept a resignation
- Accept an honor
- Accept an informal invitation to a social event
- Accept an invitation to a business appointment
- Accept and express appreciation for a suggestion
- Acknowledge an order or subscription
- Acknowledge payment of an overdue balance
- Acknowledge the receipt of a report, letter or other
- Acknowledge the receipt of a resume
- Acknowledge the receipt of a suggestion from an employee
- Acknowledge the Return of an Item For Exchange, Refund or Credit
- Announce an employee's retirement
- Announce your own retirement
- Compliment or praise a product or service supplier
- Compliment or praise a program chairperson or planner
- Compliment or praise a salesperson or a sales staff
- Compliment or praise a speaker
- Compliment or praise an employee's family for their contribution to the employee's success
- Compliment or praise the media, an author, or an editor
- Congratulate an employee on the anniversary of his or her service
- Congratulate someone on a speech or presentation
- Congratulate someone on his or her retirement
- Encourage/motivate your reader to increase sales
- Express appreciation to an employee
- Express appreciation to long-term customers and those who pay their bills promptly
- Follow up after a sale to thank the customer and offer service
- Give personal compliments or praise
- Praise government officials or employees
- Relieve someone from delegated responsibilities because someone else will assume them
- Reply positively to a suggestion
- Respond positively to negative feedback
- Write a farewell letter to a person who is leaving employment
- Write a farewell letter to a person who is retiring
- Write a farewell letter to management, co-workers or clients
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