Strategies to Deal with Your Email

With the demise of postal mail and fax machines, electronic mail usage has skyrocketed.

Many of us become overwhelmed with the onslaught of correspondence, orders, newsletters, etc and we struggle to stay on top of our inbox. The speed of modern communications means senders are expecting an instant response which adds further pressure.

Here are some tips that could help you.

1) Use “Rules’ for filter you incoming mail. Ie, electronic newsletters automatically go to folders labelled “Newsletters”.
2) Don’t check your mail so frequently.
3) Reply in a timely manner, but not immediately. Some companies have a rule where important emails need to be responded to within 2 hours
4) Unsubscribe to unwanted mail
5) Set a goal to keep your in-box under a certain volume.
6) Mark (with flags) email that needs to be dealt with in a certain timeframe