Email has very effectively cemented itself into our personal and professional lives and yet for many people it is the master not the servant.
Evolved technologies like web services and social media have embraced email as a functional component. It has become a vital part of our business and marketing processes. But the ever increasing volume of email acts more as an obstacle to progress by creating a formidable wall – so high we can’t get over it, so wide we can’t get around of it – as the old song goes. Left unmanaged, email can devour your time, increase your stress levels and reduce your personal effectiveness.
Checking out how email might be tamed you’ll find similar themes from people offering a solution. The common theme is discipline. It does require a fairly hardline approach to self to get email in line. Other common themes include opting out of unnecessary email services, making the time to purge and even deleting everything an starting from scratch!
Check these posts to get the how-to info on range of great ideas. Some you can implement immediately. Some may need more time and thought to fit in to your work schedule. You might find a starting point from which you can begin to impose your will on your email and ultimately take control.
Top 10 tips for keeping your e-mail inbox clean
Here are our top 10 tips for keeping your e-mail inbox clean, which can keep your inbox clean and your e-mail experience more enjoyable. Setup rules, filters, or labels Today, all e-mail programs and online e-mail services have rules, filters, or a labeling system that allows you to move and otherwise organize incoming e-mail. Use these features to organize your e-mail and get to what is most important first. Read more…
Get Organized: How to Clean Up Your Inbox
An overflowing inbox weighs heavy on the mind. If this sounds like your life, it’s time to clean up that inbox. My method for maintaining a healthy relationship with email relies on very small and concrete actions that I carry out every daycheck out my 11 tips for managing email. Read more…
8 Tips for Email Management
Just when you think you have it under control, it has a way of overtaking you again. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by email, but it doesn’t have to be a burden. Here are my favorite tips to keep email under control. Read more…
Achieve and Maintain “Zero Inbox” Without Tools
However, lately I got too comfortable, rather lazy towards my incoming emails. In this article I am going to share some useful tips I’ve uncovered, and other good-to-know additions about how to maintain your Gmail inbox without having to use additional software or plugins. For a regular email user who sends and receives dozens (even hundreds) of emails every day, ‘zero inbox’ may sound as mythical and unreal as a unicorn or Santa Claus, or a unicorn-riding Santa Claus. Read more…
Strategies for Dealing With Email Overload
Did you know that U.S. Workers spend 13 hours per week reading, writing or responding to email?
I can’t imagine spending that much time on email anymore – I doubt I spend more than 45 minutes a day now.
But then again…. I’ve gone from receiving thousands of emails per day down to reading and replying to a few dozen per day. How? I’ll show you. Read more…
Managing Email Effectively
Do you feel overloaded by your email? These strategies will help you read and process email effectively, so that you can be more productive. Read more…
How to Maintain an Empty Email Inbox
How to Maintain an Empty Email Inbox (Inbox Zero). Email clutter seems to get away from you and accumulates so quickly that it is difficult to keep on top of it. The first stage of any email strategy is to stop any unnecessary email from… Read more…
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