Are You So Buried in Email
That You're Missing
Important Messages?

Have you ever clicked Send and instantly regretted it? Are you drowning in a flood of email or struggling with a bloated inbox? This practical handbook is packed with tips for writing more professional email, and managing more effectively the email you receive.

Skip to the Details: How To Orderven without all the spam we receive, many of us are overloaded with email. How do we know that? Type "managing email" into Google, and you get over 10.8 million hits. Popular topic — 10.8 million hits is hard to match with any two-word business-oriented search phrase.

Email has become a nightmare for most of us, but you can help restore it to the useful tool it once was. All you have to do is learn to write email that works, and learn to manage the email you receive.

I had to deal with this same problem myself, so over the years I've figured out a whole array of tricks, techniques, and just plain good practices that help me manage the emailstorm. I've selected the best and put them into a jam-packed ebooklet that shows you how to write more effective and professional email, and how to deal with the mountains of email you receive (whether it's professional or not).

You'll learn how to use the features of your email program to make more sense of the email you receive, and how to do it in less time. There are ideas for managing your inbox, deciding how to delete messages, how to write subject lines, and much more. Here's a sample:

Be nice

People who ordered this item also ordered Where There's Smoke There's Email.Write only approving things about people, companies, organizations, countries, races, species and planets. Never criticize. You don't know where your message will go after it reaches your intended recipient.

Send weekend email late

If you send your message early in the weekend to someone who's taking the weekend off, by Monday your message will be old — deep in the queue. Send it late in the weekend, or queue it for delayed delivery early Monday morning.

Set your own priorities

When a message arrives with a high-priority tag, remember that the sender assigned the priority. The message is apparently high priority to the sender — but maybe not to you.

Write subject lines with the most general terms first

When you write subject lines that start with the most general terms, subject sorts later on will group related messages together. For instance, choose "Alson account question" rather than "Question on Alson account."