We are excited to present to you our newest podcast series, Social Solutions! This show is about you, the advanced social media user.
We want to share with you the tips and tricks we have learned through our time working with these mediums. This means that we need to hear from you, so please fill out a comment bellow and we can better understand your needs and how we can help.
This episode focuses on email management. I run through three steps you can take to help you manage your inbox and utilize your time more efficiently. Here are the steps and some resources to help you manage your email inbox.
1. Use the filter system within your email
This will help guide your emails into folders to keep your inbox organized. You can even create a coloured folder or flagging system for important emails. My best tip from the video is to create a filter with the word “unsubscribe”. This will aggregate all your marketing emails in one place. Or one step better, you can use the unroll.me system; I just recently started using it and found it to be extremely useful!
Gmail resources:
Outlook resources:
Using Outlook to track messages
Plus, a feature-by-feature rundown of Outlook vs. Gmail features
2. Ruthlessly unsubscribe
Now that all your incoming marketing emails are in one place, take some time to go through all of them and unsubscribe from the ones that are no longer useful to you. Another thing to do is to change your social settings. Visit the social media sites you use and modify the email notification settings to suit your needs better. Here are a few resources to help you manage your privacy settings:
Facebook: The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Managing Your Facebook Privacy
Twitter: How to Stop Twitter Notifications
LinkedIn: How to Set Your LinkedIn E-mail Notifications
3. Don’t be afraid of the phone
If you think an email will take a long time to answer, try giving the person a phone call to avoid spending time writing a detailed email. It will save you some time!
That’s it for this week’s episode, I hope these tips were useful to you. If there is anything specific you want me to cover, please let our team know by writing a comment below!
Stay tuned next week as we cover the Twitter API. Here are a few resources to get you up to speed:
What Is An API & What Are They Good For? [Technology Explained]
Using APIs: Not Quite as Hard as it Looks
Explaining the API Revolution to your CEO
