Three Thoughts Thursday: Protecting Your Email Inbox
As entrepreneurs, we’re too busy to deal with mass amounts of email. I have a TON of ideas on how to protect your inbox, but here are my top 3 thoughts on the subject:1. Get a VA to receive your customer service / general inquiries emails. Although some fear of loss of control, when planned out and done correctly, you’ll find the email gets answered efficiently and probably faster than when you yourself do it. Just listen to this Outsourcing Training Interview to hear about the amazing revelations Kelly McCausey and I had when we had a VA take over our email support.
Hiring an assistant to handle your email will also keep you from getting worked up over emails that you don’t need dragging you down. Your helper has no personal ties to the subjects of your email, so won’t have to worry about the stress that comes with taking things personally when you receive those nasty emails. Even if we’re as good as gold, that nastiness always creeps in at some point.
2. Don’t use a common address like sales@ / admin@ or similar. Spammers will automatically email those addresses. You’d be surprised at the number of emails this will eliminate from your inbox.
3. You don’t need every newsletter subscription out there. Find a few that you can’t live without and unsubscribe from the rest. If you aren’t sure if a subscription will be exactly what you’re looking for, send them to a free junk email address set up for things just like this.
Protecting your email inbox can do wonders for your productivity…how do you protect yours?
2 Comments:
I recently deleted an address that was getting spam and was really upset when I set up a new one and it got spam almost instantly. I didn't realize that if I did sales@site.com that it would so likely be spammed. Thanks for the tip.
How funny you posted this today. Yesterday I deleted two of my email accounts for too much spam and also unsubscribed from a bunch of lists/newsletters that I really didn't need.
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