Email Management: Send Less-Get Less
If you want to get a handle email management & reduce how much email you have coming in, you have to start with your own email sending habits. According to Mike Song from the Hamster Revolution, for every 5 emails that you send, approximately 3 will require a response. So, if you send 5 you can pretty much expect to get 3 back in your own inbox. Reduce how many emails you send and you will reduce how many emails you receive-yeah!
So really think before you hit send. Does this person really need this email to perform their job? Does this person really need to be included in this email string? Do I really need to send this joke and risk getting an “Lol’ back?
Isn’t it great that the first step to email management is in your own hands? Make, “Send Less, Get Less” your new motto every day at your computer or smart phone and see your inbox numbers decrease!
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Great tip!
Another thing I’ve found is that if I sit down and focus on emails (that I have to send) for an hour or two, I’ll get inundated with replies and don’t feel I really got ahead. So what I do now is use the delayed delivery function of Outlook to spread out when they are sent. Of course there’s no guarantee, but it increases the likelihood of the responses coming in at different times too.