Do you think smiley faces are appropiate on emails to clients? ;)

A Client is also a human being and hence science and technology has advanced so much, we have to accept changes as it comes. Earlier, American English was considered slang but now everybody is using American English much more than the British English in terms of words, sentences spellings et al...IA smiley add an extra humor and I do not see any harm to it..:)))

Thanks Amrita 4 invite

Yes everybody likes Smiley but it is the matter of individual to take them in to business or not

If I am sending mails to a new client, definitely I would not like to send it at all.

But if comaratively older client with the fixed business and within the age Group and hierarchy then its quite handy to reduce the distance between two peple.

It also depends upon the relationship with your clients as well.If client wants to be serious always nothing is helping out.To keep him for our business we have to leave Smileys out of communictions

It's a,purely,  an individual taste & the position he occupies. Say, a supplier running short of a particular item or does not work now etc. Based on the type of communication that he intends to converse with. So that, his point of opinion is made clear and illustrated.

it depends on the rapport

I would agree with you Amrita. It does matter on the relationship. Add to this it also depends on the situation. No matter how good the professional relationship is in case of some hot / serous discussion naturally a smiley may make you perceived as childish. One could be perceived as not understanding the seriousness of the problem and hence could further irritate the recipient.

I agree with your view in this topic.

Yes it is a matter of relationship with the client.