If you practice good email organization, as I write about here: 4 Steps to Becoming More Responsive, you will have an Inbox with emails flagged by priority (more about flagging here: How to Use Email Flagging). Before you can even start with flagging, you need to understand how to prioritize email.
You will prioritize email based on your unique goals.
As a general rule, your top priority should be the emails that you need to act […]
Your email inbox can feel cluttered and overwhelming.
Email filtering (see my blog post here: De-Clutter Your Email Inbox) automatically removes the less-important emails. Your email inbox can stay organized with less effort and you won’t miss important communication.
Manually setting up filters in your email program provides the most control over your inbox. It can, however, seem intimidating to learn how to set filters up.
If you don’t want to deal with setting up filters yourself […]
You’re pretty consistent at staying on top of your email. But now you’re going on vacation, or on a business trip, or you know that you’re going to be too busy working on a project. Just the thought of all those unanswered emails piling up while you’re gone from the office is enough to give you a least a little bit of a sinking feeling.
We all experience email hell from time to time. It can […]
Communications have become so fragmented.
Some people communicate with me by email, some text me, some send a Facebook message, some call me on the phone. Lately, I even have a couple of teams on Slack and am communicating with them using that platform.
Responding to them is easy – I just respond using the same method. What’s not productive is when I need to initiate a conversation and I have to stop to think, “Now […]
It takes time to get through emails on a daily basis. Even if you follow good email organization (see my blog post here: 4 Steps to Becoming More Responsive), it takes a lot of time to read and respond to the important emails and to follow up on the less important ones.
If you find yourself responding in a similar way to certain emails, then you can use “canned” email responses to work more efficiently.
Let’s say, […]
I generally advise my clients to install a task management application and to integrate it with email, so that they’re not using email to manage tasks. I write about that here: How to Integrate Email with Task Management.
Google, with its Inbox app, is trying to get people to do the opposite – to dump the task management app and use email instead. You can read more about Google’s Inbox here: How to Manage Your Gmail […]
The average business worker sends and receives over 120 business emails per day and spends nearly 30 percent of the workweek managing email. Together with personal email, 205 billion emails are sent emails each day—a number expected to increase over 16 percent to 246 billion emails in 2019.
Email overload can result in anxiety and a feeling of guilt.
It can be stressful to see your Inbox growing out of control and there is an increased risk […]
It’s very common to procrastinate on dealing with your email overload.
Does this sound familiar to you?
You dread sitting down at your desk to look at email.
You stay at your desk longer every day to try to stay on top of your inbox.
The size of your inbox keeps increasing.
You have not just emails from your co-workers, clients, friends, and family, but also emails from school lists, notifications from social networks, and newsletters from retailers, vendors, […]
Email is becoming an inefficient way to communicate.
Does this sound like you?
You dread sitting down at your desk to look at email and feel guilty and anxious at the sight of your overflowing inbox
You stay at your desk longer every day to try to stay on top of your inbox.
The size of your inbox keeps increasing.
You have not just emails from your co-workers, clients, friends, and family, but also emails from school lists, notifications from […]
In the “early days” of the Internet, websites discovered pop-up ads.
These ads were intrusive and annoying, and they were followed shortly by adware and malware pop-ups that posed as ads. Clicking on them at a minimum encouraged intrusive advertising. They could also possibly infect your computer with malware.
Internet browsers responded by adding a pop-up ad blocker which mainly took care of the problem.
Advertisers had to find another way. First, they came up with “pop-under” […]
