You’ll enjoy this 2 minute ABC News Boston segment. Reporter Kelley Tuthill has only 37,000 items in her inbox, and that’s only one of her many email accounts. Click here … Continue reading 37,000 in her email inbox? Detox for ABC Boston reporter Kelley Tuthill…
This solution comes under the heading of working to manage yourself even better. Sometimes we understand what we need to change, yet we have a hard time making the change. … Continue reading Ask Marsha: My problem is that I am addicted. I check my e-mail 24/7. I know I should check my e-mail only periodically but I can’t seem to stick to it… What can I do?
I really don’t need to see an autoresponder that says “Thanks for your message. I will respond to you as soon as I can.” Duh… What is YOUR Pet e-peeve? … Continue reading Email Pet Peeve: Senseless Autoresponders
First, KUDOS! It is extremely important that you do have a high priority of not offending others. I think we have all been around reformed smokers or people who’ve lost … Continue reading Ask Marsha: My biggest challenge after being “converted” to your system is getting others trained on how I want to receive emails. How do I get them to work within my new parameters without offending them?
This one is just plain rude. Take a moment and tell me what is in the attachment. One brief sentence will do nicely. What is YOUR Pet e-peeve? We’d love … Continue reading Email Pet Peeve: Attachment and no body
As if we don’t have enough emails charging into our inboxes already! Now we have Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. notifications haphazardly gracing that inbox, interrupting us, and adding more messages … Continue reading How to Deal with All Those Social Media Emails
We have all groaned at the email send to several and exploding number of responding “reply all” emails. Trying to solve a problem via a community of emails can be … Continue reading The Two ‘Round Rule
So you have done the right thing by sending information to someone. they see the message and call you, saying, I don’t have time to read the email, can you … Continue reading Email Pet Peeve: People who call you because they’re too busy to read your email
– It could be that, by deferring this task to the end of the day, you are making yourself read the emails one more time than you need to. We … Continue reading Ask Marsha: At the end of each day, I diligently move the email, both received and sent, into folders. But it is still overwhelming. How do I control it?
Yech. I hate it when someone underlines a word in an email message. I think it is a hyperlink! Bold it. italicize it. enlarge it. Just don’t underline it… What … Continue reading Email Pet Peeve: Underlines
It’s Clean Out Your Inbox Week, and each day of this week we are providing our e-mailing friends and followers with free resources to spur them on to Inbox Zero. … Continue reading Clean Out Your Inbox Week: Monday’s Free Resource – 10 Best Practices Poster
