Increase Your Productivity With Better Email Management

Increase Your Productivity With Better Email Management

by | May 28, 2015 | Small Business

Over 100 billion emails are sent and received per day, with the majority coming from business email. Though consumer-oriented email is expected to decline in the coming years, business-oriented messaging is expected to rise to 132 billion emails by 2017. For anyone using email to communicate, this is no doubt overwhelming and worrying, as it’s both costly and time-consuming: A McKinsey study estimated that workers spent 28% of their time per week checking and answering email and broken communication due to email distraction and delay of answering messages costs $1.5 billion dollars per year in the United States alone.

With the usage of email increasing, business owners and individuals are discovering the challenges of keeping up. After all, ignoring email for a few hours means coming back to more messages, and answering emails every few minutes means that work doesn’t get done and time is lost. In today’s blog post, we’ll share some useful advice that will help those who feel tied to their email to discover their freedom again and get work done.
Tips for Breaking Free
Articulate your subject line: The quickest way to ensuring that your email gets ignored is a vague subject line. While “hey!”, “please read”, and “urgent” appear to be simple and to the point, they miss the boat on setting the right intention through communication. Make sure your subject lines are coherent and specific so your reader knows exactly what’s being asked of.

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How Many Hours Are Wasted On Email And What You Can Do About It

by | Feb 26, 2015 | Small Business, Tips

The McKinsey Global Institute has revealed an alarming statistic: The average employee spends 474 hours per year sorting through and reading unnecessary emails! Yikes! Not only is that extremely unproductive (and somewhat annoying), but it can also result in many overlooked communications due to accidental use of the delete key. Please take the short quiz below to determine whether this post could prevent you from wasting nearly 20 days of your life each year.

Have you ever found yourself in these situations before?

  • Realized that you just CC’d your entire team unintentionally.
  • Found an important email in trash days later.
  • Wondered, “Why am I included in this email?”
  • Felt that the idea of cleaning up your inbox is about as easy as catching a greased pig.

If you answered yes to any part of the quiz, then the below guidelines can assist you in perfecting your email etiquette:

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