I don't know about you, but I get a lot of emails that I may or may not ever have the chance to read, but which I don't want to unsubscribe from. But what happens is that they clog up my inbox. I can have upwards of 200 unread emails in my box at any given time and that's really bad when you realize that some of those emails that I don't HAVE to read may be pushing others that I do off the radar entirely.
So tonight I did some reorganizing. I put a bunch of filters in place on my Outlook. Now my newsletters all go to a Newsletter box. And emails from specific people that I need to be able to track the conversation go to email boxes with their names on them. All the ads that I keep for marketing research purposes are in their own folder too.
I'm down to 64 unread emails. I know - still too many. But I'm working on it. That's not bad for half an hour's worth of sorting. I'm down almost 150 emails. But my brain is bleary now and I need to be done on the computer. Time to go out and have some fun.
Have a great weekend!
Kelle Sparta is the author of The Consultative Real Estate Agent - Building Relationships that Create Loyal Clients, Get More Referrals, and Increase Your Sales, as well as being a speaker and trainer specializing in the real estate industry. Kelle is the founder of Sparta Success Systems, a real estate training company that provides tools, products, and training to empower agents and brokers to create lives and businesses they can love. For more information, visit her website at http://www.spartasuccess.com/. © 2007, Kelle Sparta.
Very good post-I totally agree.
Thanks for sharing it.
Hi Kelle,
My artbusiness coach has also been blogging about email organization. It is a very good point. When my computer desk top and in box are as piled up as my desk I am in big trouble! By the way, I checked out your site through a mutual friend. I am an artist not in real estate, but as a blogging artist, I can't resist checking out blogs. You do good work, and know what's important to the clinet, I can tell from your website!
Thanks,
Carla
Gail - I will eventually get through all of the folders. But this way I can do it systematically. I intend on deleting a ton of files. I actually did a quick tutorial on the Microsoft website that taught me how to change the sorting of my files so I could sort by files size and that allowed me to delete a TON of files that were taking up way too much space on my hard drive. That was a good start. You have to start somewhere...