New Questions

I never answer new questions received in my emails. By the time I get to the questions someone has already answered them or I don't have enough knowledge to comment.

This does not mean I don't look at questions at all. I just do it somewhere else. I will show you a bit later where I go.

I will isolate the new questions as I have done with new blog posts (see the previous page) and delete all of them.

New Training Just Added

Once again I isolate the "New Training Just Added". I will spend a few seconds scanning the training and select any I might find helpful at that moment. I will bookmark it in my emails and move it to the starred folder.

The rest I will delete.

New Followers and Replies to Your Comments

From here it should be fairly easy to attend to the rest of the WA emails left in your inbox. This is also a part that can take a while to attend to.

Now you just thank your new followers, read their profiles (if you have time) and follow them back if you haven't yet.

Read, reply and/or like any new comments and private messages you have received.

This should clear out your inbox from WA emails for the day.

It is very tempting to keep track during the rest of the day, but I have taught myself not to do that. Tomorrow is another day.

What else do you want or need to do here at WA, before you proceed with your training and website building?

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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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