Email Overload!

Hi people,

I have been seeing a lot of talk lately about too much email being received on your mailbox and the inability to cope with it all.

Well, speaking for myself I too was confronted with this issue some time back and I spent some time in devising a system for myself, I use Gmail…

Check a screenshot of what I have done, below:

For each of the emails received under a specific Topic I created a mail rule to automatically store the message in the specified folder thus skipping the INBOX.

You may ask why I did this, well, allow me to explain.

Since receiving so many emails on a daily basis, like you I was being “snowed under” with the volumes thus when you have a complex problem to resolve it has been my experience to break it down into smaller, manageable chunks to be able to address each issue more efficiently.

Now, when I check my Wealthy Affiliates folder everything is nicely sorted.

On my daily routine, I check if I have received any followers for the day and go that folder and spend some time to reply to my followers.

Once I replied to all my new followers, I get back to the Followers folder, select them all and drag them to the P_Followers folder for archival purposes, the "P_" stands for processed.

I take this approach on all folders and find it the email management is now much more streamlined and manageable.

Please note that not all folders require daily intervention, some only need to be looked at once a week or even once a month.

I hope that you find this post useful to you and wish you a great and productive weekend.

To Our Success Online,

Jonicas