One thing that’s impossible to get around, especially if you’re a marketer, is your email account. In many cases, if you’re an active marketer, you have many email accounts. I can’t even tell you how many I have at this point in time. After a while, managing them becomes quite a chore. Well, in the almost seven years that I’ve been doing this, I have gotten the management of my email accounts down to a science. So, I am going to share with you a few tips that I think you will find useful.

At the very top of the list is forwarding. As I said, I have many accounts. If I had to guess, I’d say it was somewhere between 50 and 100. Imagine going to each and every one of them individually to check your emails, especially if you don’t like using Outlook because of the ease of downloading a virus and instead use an online mailer like Squirrel Mail. Well, the simple solution to this problem is email forwarding. What I do is forward every single one of my email accounts to one central account. That way, I only have one account to check and can do all my correspondence from there. Trust me, it saves hours of time.

Next thing you want to do, especially if you sell a lot of products, is set up separate folders for each product in order to handle support requests or simply keep track of sales receipts. By saving each PayPal receipt in its respective folder, I can tell, at a glance, how many sales I have made for a particular product. Sure, I could log into DLGuard and do the same thing. But this is much quicker. Also, I setup a followup folder for support requests. I check this at least once every day. That way, nobody waits for more than 24 hours to get a reply to their request.

Finally, and this is a HUGE time saver, there are many tasks that you do on a regular basis, such as thank you emails or answering general support questions that you do over and over. For example, I get quite a few emails from people asking how to view videos that I provided with some of my products. So what I do, instead of typing up the same answer over and over again, is I keep the answer in a folder so that I can just copy and paste it into the email. So what would have been a five or even ten minute reply now becomes a 10 second copy and paste job.

There you have it. These are just three simple things you can do to make handling your email accounts a little bit easier and a lot more efficient.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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