Purging My Clutter – Can you help me with my Email?
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During the past week I have been purging my electronic clutter, old files and software no longer needed and specifically, my email. Mixing this with my other day to day chores has been a challenge.
Like most bloggers and entrepreneurs, I have quite a few email accounts set-up for various purposes. I set out to get all of them cleaned up by the end of 2009 but life, as often happens, got in the way.
The next thing I know the New Year had arrived and I had hardly started on this project, which was quite substantial.
I use Gmail for most of my business accounts because it’s free, easy to use, and you get tons of storage space (7.2 Gigs) for each account. Now you know how the email thing goes, you get so many during the course of the day that you find yourself cherry-picking the really high priority and important ones first, leaving the others to get back to a little later.
The fact that I had so many emails to get back to began to bother me and it had gotten to a point where I knew I had to do something. It is a new year and this was gnawing at me, so drastic action had to be taken.
So I rearranged my normal work schedule to spend the required hours upon hours each day to clear away this backlog from my inbox, my mind and my life. I can tell you that I am now so refreshed and ready to rock and roll for 2010 that I just had to write this post about the experience.
This may sound like a small thing but when you have multiple accounts that accumulate 20 to 40 emails daily, and each account has an inbox with numbers in the thousands, let’s be honest, this **** is out of hand.
This situation has caused me to add another goal for 2010, and that is to implement a highly efficient email management system to avoid recurrence.
My old system was to set aside blocks of time to keep the numbers manageable but obviously I flubbed at that along the way.
This is where you can help me out.
What systems or techniques do you find most effective for managing your email?
Yeah I know, no system will help me if I fail to read them in the first place, but the sheer numbers had overwhelmed my efforts.
If you would kindly leave me some suggestions in the comments section, it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
The Week In Review
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This is the first Week In Review post for 2010 and as I look back upon last year, I have fond memories of the progress made while blogging. I am now in my 11th month as a blogger, although I have been online with web sites for many years.
As a blogger I travel around the internet stopping at numerous places during the week to read the work of others and to share some of what I find in this ongoing weekly series. This is a form of networking that I thoroughly enjoy because it leads to meeting so many people from all over the globe. That’s pretty cool considering you never have to leave your office. 
This year has just begun and there is a lot going on, not only for me, but all around the net. People are busily getting off to a great start and it shows.
The week ending January 10th 2010
Do You Need Help loosing Weight? By Rando
Hey, I am just providing the title so don’t get pissed with me.
Seriously, you know the drill, each January there are legions of people setting out to reduce their clothing sizes. A little motivation is often helpful, so think about that cruise coming up later this summer.
TrueTwit is a validation service used to avoid robots and spammers while helping you manage your Twitter followers. You can check it out at TrueTwit.com.
How to Brand Your tweets with TweetBrand By Ching Ya
This is a nice Twitter branding tool that allows you to place your Blog or Company name at the bottom of your actual Tweet instead of yielding this digital real estate to clients software like TweetDeck or Hootsuite.
10 Tips for Overcoming Your critics to Build Your Business By Frank Angelone
I met this dude over on David Risley’s guest posting, which is a prime example of how guest posting can benefit your business. Anyhow, his 10 tips piece on critics was spot on and exactly what I think about that situation as well. Check it out.
I followed his link back to his camp and found a really nice blog on technology and social networks. Swing by sometime –> Social Tech Zone
Job growth returns — then fades By Chris Isidore
The dismal U S job market continues to yield bad news as 85,000 more jobs were lost in December, bringing the 2009 totals to 4.2 million.
It is no wonder then that people are coming to the internet in search of opportunities. Families are hurting.
On the OBB
Create the Lifestyle You Desire in 2010
Is It a Good Time to be an Online Entrepreneur?
With so many new launches occurring during the beginning of this year I offer;
15 Blog Design Mistakes to Avoid
From the archives;
Why Start an Online Business in a Down Economy?
Have a great weekend everyone and Keep Blogging!
