Well so many times I’m asked why I filter my emails and you know me by now that if I am asked a question often enough that I will get a post done up for you.
The main reason that I filter mine is that when you belong to 500 plus sites you get lot of emails and I learned early on that it’s not fun opening your email to find out that you have thousands of them to go thru AND if you were like me – you missed out on the ones that you should be seeing.
So my solution to this was to start filtering my emails and yes I do it by site – I create a folder for the site and automatically send all the emails from that site to that folder – it’s like cleaning up your file cabinet.
This is no different – you are creating files for the info that you want to store in your file cabinet and the more automated you make it the more time you are going to save.
Now once you have your folders all set up – then it makes it easy for you especially on the mailers and safelist that you might belong to. If you are like me and on a budget, then you can’t be upgraded on all the sites and have to click for your credits.
WHY would you want to click – well the reason that I do is that I watch the opening lines of the emails and add ones that I like to my swipe file to use later. Also, by clicking , I can see what others are promoting, which sites are popular, watch the bodies of the emails for new ideas to use on mine and of course the credits.
The great thing about clicking when they are in all ONE folder for one site – you just keep clicking till you have enough credits to send out your solo or email and then you can select all and delete the rest of the emails. Then when you need to send again from this site, you will have the newest emails in your folder.
AND if you are like me, you just don’t have time to click them all – so keep this in mind when you are doing your emails or solos – the person clicking time is limited and is wanting to get to that link to get their credit – so short and sweet and to the point in the body of your email.
Being we are starting the new year, this would be a great time to get your email more organized and for me make better use of my time.
That’s a really awesome tip, timesaver for sure. I use a software that filters most of the spam out. And I use special email addresses for those TEs. But your idea is much better. Maybe i’ll do the same, save me some time. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Xarah and this is one of the best timesavers for me – would love to hear how it works for you.
Hi Nancy,
Here is what I do usually:
For each mailers I got a special folder. If I want to see the mail of a website I just search in my mail (by giving in the name of the site) f.i. when there is a crosspromo and I cannot find immediately the mail of the other site.
Have a nice day
Greetings,
Jo Hefting
Oh I agree this is a great feature and saves so much time for people – can’t believe more don’t do this