Managing Your Email Before It Manages You!
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008|
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re emails taking up more and more of your time? Are you having trouble being productive with distracting email pop ups constantly throughout your day? And you’re overloaded with so much email that you can never seem to get through them all?
I recently listened to a teleseminar that Mike Song, co-author of “The Hamster Revolutions: How to Manage Your Email before It Manages You” and is one of America’s leading experts on email efficiency and etiquette, which I found very useful.
Here are a few tips that I have since implemented:
1. If using Outlook, turn off your email notification pop up, as this is distracting when trying to concentrate on a project.
2. Have your send/receiving timer set to every 30 minutes instead of 5 minutes; again, this can be distracting.
3. In Outlook, you can set rules so that all incoming email will route itself to certain folders. Then set up a reminder during certain times of the day to check these folders. Believe it or not your clients will get use to your time line for responding to email messages.
