This training will consist of the following:

1. Email Notifications - Should I Disable or Not

2. Sorting WA Emails From The Different Gmail Tabs

3. New Blog Post Emails

4. Sorting the Rest of Your Emails

5. What else to do here at WA

How Much Time to Spend on WA Emails?

The more followers you get, the more hectic your inbox become. Before you realize it, you can spend hours reading new blog posts, answer questions, watch training, reply to comments and new followers.

I have a very effective system to manage these. My goal is not to spend more than 1 hour per day on WA emails. Other emails and other things also need my attention. Most importantly you need to build your website and write quality content. That is more important than spending hours trying to keep your emails under control.

You might have MORE or LESS time to spend on emails and can adjust my recommendations to cater for your needs.

WA Email Notifications

If you don't know it, WA has an option where you can disable your email notifications. I have tried that last year, but I felt very lonely with my empty inbox. After 3 days I realized I miss my emails and it was just easier receiving the emails, than navigating through WA to see who is doing and saying what. This could be totally different for you.

If you would prefer to disable your email notifications, here is how you do it.

Select the following:

  1. Click your profile picture
  2. From the drop down list select"Account Settings"
  3. Scroll down until you see "Email Notification Settings"
  4. Select"Edit" or if you don't want to receive any emails just select "No"

If you select Edit, you will see the following screen. From this, you can disable whatever email you don't want to receive.

If you are not going to follow this route, which I didn't, you can proceed to the next step. I use Gmail, but I am sure you can apply this anywhere. Some options might differ.

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Kambas Premium
Great training here Rika and very useful.
My inbox is FULL of messages I don't want to delete, there is no way I can read and answer all the people I follow.
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RikaSF Premium
Thanks Kamil. I clean out my inbox every day. What I don't delete I move to folders I have created for each group.
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LouisaB Premium
Good information, and awesome training. Straight to the point.
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RikaSF Premium
Thank you Louisa:)
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JerryHuang Premium Plus
Thanks for sharing this great tip!
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RikaSF Premium
My pleasure Jerry. Thanks for having a look:)
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pablocortina Premium
Thank you for the lesson. I agree that the emails can use up a lot of time. Time management is essential
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RikaSF Premium
My pleasure Pablo. Thanks for having a look. It is much appreciated:)
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dgurtner Premium
Thanks for this training! It's perfect timing for me because I'm starting to get a lot of notification emails from WA. I've set up a filter in Gmail that keeps the notifications out of my inbox for now ;-)
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RikaSF Premium
Thank you Daniel. You do not need the Gmail filters and can manage your notifications from WA.
You are welcome to ask me any questions on how to effectively use WA and have more time to spend on other things:)
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dgurtner Premium
How many notifications would you say that you get on average every day?
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RikaSF Premium
About 120 notifications per day and I only have 1100 followers. The more followers you have the more notifications.

The big time waster is how to decide what posts to attend to. In my training I show you how to reduce this dramatically and still give everyone a fair chance:)
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dgurtner Premium
Yeah, I saw that. I like the way you think. It's totally random and everyone gets a fair chance like you said. I think I'll start implementing that as well... every 7th one. I don't have nearly as many followers but it makes sense to get into a routine early on.
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RikaSF Premium
I try to give attention to 10 new blog posts a day. This means if I have 70 new blog posts, I only attend to 1 out of 7. If I have 50 new posts it will be 1 out of 5, etc:)
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dgurtner Premium
Very good! Yeah, you'd be there all day if you'd be reading all of them... actually you probably would never get done lol
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