5 email tips to make your life easier!
Article by Bob Young
E-mailing
is the most popular and efficient way to contact people. However,
e-mailing has it's drawbacks. Here are some problem areas and how to
overcome them:1. SPAM: No matter how much patience you have, spam is a
menace! This is email you never wanted and people are just blasting you
with products or enticements. You try to ignore it but it keeps growing
and growing till it starts eating up more and more of your time. You
reach a point where you are so mad, you feel like throwing the computer
at these inconsiderate people who are clogging your inbox and wasting
your valuable time.
Relax, there is a solution! Just have ALL your
email come to a spam folder and then set a rule in Outlook (or email
processing software of your choice) to only put emails from known people
into your inbox. Once a week, just eye through the spam folder quickly
to see if there is any email you may have missed. If not, then delete
the entire folder and you are done!
2. Bounced email: You are
working hard to catch up and trying to get an important message out. So
you email the person and you think you are done. Two minutes later the
message comes back as 'undeliverable'. It always happens when you least
expect it and are pressed for time. It is so frustrating!
I found a
place where you can FORWARD your undeliverable email (also known as
'bounced' email) to Find@switchemail.com and they will find the new email address and forward the message.
3. Attachments: If you want
to stay away from the dreaded viruses, worms and all those wonderful
pesky things that hurt your computer, then don't open any attachments
from unknown people. Also, ask all your contacts to send you the
attachment in the body of the email. Rarely, will you have a need where
you have to have a separate attachment. Simply, have them cut &
paste the attachment content into the email body. This way you are
COMPLETELY safe and yet have the information.
4. Subject line: A
great way to communicate is to type your message in the subject line. Of
course this works best with short messages. You may be able to convert
your other email also in to short messages. Think about it, most of the
people that we regularly email, generally all we need is to get a short
message across. Maybe an acknowledgement or a quick question. Why waste
time with salutation, body, signature. Subject line messaging works
great. You have less work to do, and they don't have to open the email
and read through the clutter to find the message. This method of subject
line messaging saves a lot of time for everyone, try it!
5.
Original message: Always include original message in your reply. It
helps you by having a chronological documentation of how things
happened. It helps them by remembering what was said before. In our
hectic day to day life, we all forget what we were discussing via email.
You then have to scroll through previous emails to recreate what was
said. I get frustrated when people have their email settings where they
don't send me the original message. The whole process can be cut short,
if you only set up your settings to include original message in the
reply. Make your life and the other person's life easier!
Monday, February 20, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
How an email oversight cost NASA 7 million
How an email oversight cost NASA 7 million
Article by Sandy Cosser
Email is god's gift to communication but it can be a righteous pain in the neck the third time you get "e-hugs" from someone who just wants to let you know how special you are, and by the way, please send this to 20 other people including me, or else you'll have years of bad luck equivalent to your age. I think that the world would be a better place if the originators of those emails were struck by lightning, and their ashes buried in a deep dark vault that never saw the light of day.
Inboxes are black holes for information. Every little titbit that every person you know happens to find interesting, ends up in your inbox. We simply don't have time to read every one of them, which is why out of a thousand emails, three hundred are unread. We do our best to scan for the important ones, and so pretend that we're on top of the situation, but really we're drowning in information overload.
The problem is further compounded by the fact that when we do get around to checking our mail, we usually do it quickly, so that we can get back to business. Our minds aren't really on our inboxes. We let even pressing emails wash over our heads, forgetting what we've read about 5 minutes after we've done so.
That doesn't stop us from compulsively checking for new messages though, especially if we have a system that lets us know every time a new item arrives. This means that our minds aren't really on the task at hand either. We spend half our days in two minds and that adversely affects the quality of our work.
How do we address the problem of overflowing inboxes and prioritising information so that we can focus properly on one task at a time?
Dan Markovitz, founder and president of TimeBack Management, says that we need to realise that processing email is a task all by itself. We need to set aside some time; however long we feel we need, or can afford, to concentrate solely on our email. During this time we can file, reply and delete to our hearts' content, so long as our hearts are actually in it. Markovitz says that you shouldn't even think of going near your inbox if you don't have time to deal with it properly. That means that you can't devote the two minutes before an important meeting to the task anymore. Nor can you have a quick squizz while waiting for the photocopier to be free.
Obviously there will be occasions when it'll be necessary to dip in and pull out a high priority message, but they should be few and far between, and not the norm.
If you really want to spend less time in your inbox, Markovitz provides a list of questions that you should ask yourself. They will help you understand what information you receive, and why you receive it. The questions aren't particularly difficult, but they have the potential to make you unpopular with some colleagues, they include:
1) What percentage of your email do you consider to be worthless?
2) From which departments or people do you get most of your worthless email?
3) What topics crop up the most in worthless emails?
4) How long does mail stay in your inbox?
5) Why does mail stay in your inbox for a long time?
Your answers will help you to understand the root causes of your flooded inbox, and allow you to come up with appropriate measures to address the problem.
It's entirely possible that the root of your problem lies with you, and your natural disposition towards chaos. If this is the case, try a little self-organisation before you go about alienating colleagues by declaring that all their communication is worthless and that you're placing them at the bottom of your list of priorities.
To highlight the importance of email processing, Markovitz uses the example of NASA's 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter that burned up in the Martian atmosphere. The mishap occurred because the two teams that were worked on the project used different units of measurement. One worked in English units while the other worked in metric units.
This in itself was not an insurmountable problem. The real oversight occurred when the email informing the flight director of the problem lay buried in her inbox for 10 months. She may have seen it and simply not deemed it important at the time, and then forgot about it until it was spectacularly too late. Or it may have been lumped with all the unread emails from concerned friends and family telling her about the dangers of contraceptive injections.
Whatever the reason, we can be reasonably sure that at 7 million, it's been the most expensive email sent to date. Kind of makes you feel like taking 20 minutes to see what's hiding in your inbox, doesn't it?
Article by Sandy Cosser
Email is god's gift to communication but it can be a righteous pain in the neck the third time you get "e-hugs" from someone who just wants to let you know how special you are, and by the way, please send this to 20 other people including me, or else you'll have years of bad luck equivalent to your age. I think that the world would be a better place if the originators of those emails were struck by lightning, and their ashes buried in a deep dark vault that never saw the light of day.
Inboxes are black holes for information. Every little titbit that every person you know happens to find interesting, ends up in your inbox. We simply don't have time to read every one of them, which is why out of a thousand emails, three hundred are unread. We do our best to scan for the important ones, and so pretend that we're on top of the situation, but really we're drowning in information overload.
The problem is further compounded by the fact that when we do get around to checking our mail, we usually do it quickly, so that we can get back to business. Our minds aren't really on our inboxes. We let even pressing emails wash over our heads, forgetting what we've read about 5 minutes after we've done so.
That doesn't stop us from compulsively checking for new messages though, especially if we have a system that lets us know every time a new item arrives. This means that our minds aren't really on the task at hand either. We spend half our days in two minds and that adversely affects the quality of our work.
How do we address the problem of overflowing inboxes and prioritising information so that we can focus properly on one task at a time?
Dan Markovitz, founder and president of TimeBack Management, says that we need to realise that processing email is a task all by itself. We need to set aside some time; however long we feel we need, or can afford, to concentrate solely on our email. During this time we can file, reply and delete to our hearts' content, so long as our hearts are actually in it. Markovitz says that you shouldn't even think of going near your inbox if you don't have time to deal with it properly. That means that you can't devote the two minutes before an important meeting to the task anymore. Nor can you have a quick squizz while waiting for the photocopier to be free.
Obviously there will be occasions when it'll be necessary to dip in and pull out a high priority message, but they should be few and far between, and not the norm.
If you really want to spend less time in your inbox, Markovitz provides a list of questions that you should ask yourself. They will help you understand what information you receive, and why you receive it. The questions aren't particularly difficult, but they have the potential to make you unpopular with some colleagues, they include:
1) What percentage of your email do you consider to be worthless?
2) From which departments or people do you get most of your worthless email?
3) What topics crop up the most in worthless emails?
4) How long does mail stay in your inbox?
5) Why does mail stay in your inbox for a long time?
Your answers will help you to understand the root causes of your flooded inbox, and allow you to come up with appropriate measures to address the problem.
It's entirely possible that the root of your problem lies with you, and your natural disposition towards chaos. If this is the case, try a little self-organisation before you go about alienating colleagues by declaring that all their communication is worthless and that you're placing them at the bottom of your list of priorities.
To highlight the importance of email processing, Markovitz uses the example of NASA's 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter that burned up in the Martian atmosphere. The mishap occurred because the two teams that were worked on the project used different units of measurement. One worked in English units while the other worked in metric units.
This in itself was not an insurmountable problem. The real oversight occurred when the email informing the flight director of the problem lay buried in her inbox for 10 months. She may have seen it and simply not deemed it important at the time, and then forgot about it until it was spectacularly too late. Or it may have been lumped with all the unread emails from concerned friends and family telling her about the dangers of contraceptive injections.
Whatever the reason, we can be reasonably sure that at 7 million, it's been the most expensive email sent to date. Kind of makes you feel like taking 20 minutes to see what's hiding in your inbox, doesn't it?
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Online Rebate Processor – Things You Must Know About
Online Rebate Processor – Things You Must Know About Paypal Payout Service!
Article by Marry Parker
Are you thinking about as an on line household refund processor? This really is your best chance to be able to function coming from dwelling, perfect away ones laptop or computer along with internet interconnection. It is so effortless and therefore profitable that this had been one of the most well-liked function on dwelling opportunity in 2009. Attempts are going through quickly at this point, and so it is actually suggested which you have began the minute achievable. These types of online household refund cpu work opportunities aren't precisely easy to be able to learn how to start out. The specific digesting regarding rebates is definitely uncomplicated having said that. Thankfully, you can find source of information plus assist sites on the internet that can demonstrate exactly ways to acquire began processing discounts. Rather like rebate processor careers, some of these learning resource websites and help internet sites is going to be closing down to brand-new consumers due to the couple of rebate processor spots kept readily available. Fill out the short types that contain information and facts just like how much this rebate is actually, who it is going to help along with exactly what firm. Lastly, you receive your current verify inside the mailbox within 2 weeks.
There's a new concept in the doing the job in household area that's termed as rebate processor jobs. It is actually truly using the net by way of hurricane since lots of people who want to use a function during house company are generally learning. It's got turn into really common inside the last year. Persons are literally relaxing at the rear of his or her personal computers from residence in addition to handling discounts around each and every. I actually think a income prospective is only limited to help just how much period you need for you to method the particular discounts on a daily basis. Tend to be rebate processor employment a scam? In my opinion they're definitely not. Discounts are generally utilized through corporations every day being an motivator to purchase items. The work is to procedure that will refund through making sure this information and facts in addition to submitting the rebate by simply PayPal. The support of which give the education aren't a company. They will just give the exact techniques plus strategies that you can use for you to process refunds in the comfort of ones household. All of you have to implement is keep to the easy instructions. People today could state it is useless simply because they have to repay some sort of tiny fee so as to understand tips on how to take action. These people believe they are spending so that you can work for any corporation, although the solutions particularly claim that they're not really this companies.
I recently experimented with one of the on the web companies which deliver people using every little thing you should start processing refunds with house. I used to be pleasantly surprised at the outcomes. Within the last few year, I have taken part in kickback control under the direction regarding an individual which had invested over 5 years understanding just what exactly happens to be the easy procedure. I came across which discount producing could function as the most effective along with proper way for anybody to make a great deal of money operating coming from dwelling, simply following a couple of effortless actions. Initial, you sign up with the corporations which need to have rebate processors regarding no cost. Then you definitely get access in your private balance who has a online sorts. Prepare a short varieties that will incorporate information and facts such as just how much the rebate will be, who it goes to and also what exactly corporation. Finally, anyone receive the check inside the email in about 2 weeks.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
How to Automate Incoming Email Processing
How to Automate Incoming Email Processing
Every email marketer receives a lot of emails. Whether they are transaction confirmation emails, tickets, requests for discounts, email forms, unsubscribe emails, bounces, all of them need to be processed. Processing incoming emails manually can be very challenging. There are many formats of emails which must be checked, analyzed and classified. You have to read each email, find the data you need, extract it and add to your database, or delete the record from the database, or save the data to the file, or whatever you need to do with the received information. It can literally take hours, or even eat up almost all your working time.
To release yourself from this tedious work, you can use automatic email processing software called G-Lock Email Processor. This little tool has all necessary email auto-processing features and reads incoming emails from POP3 and IMAP mailboxes. You develop a set of rules that determine how you want to process your incoming messages. A rule can include a filter which catches specific emails and other components determining what data to extract from the messages and what to do with the extracted data: save to a file, add to the database, delete from the database, or update the database based on the extracted data. Plus, you can send a reply to the customer immediately after the message is processed, or a few days later. Once the rule is setup and working, it will quietly process the emails on the background while you can focus on a more important job.
The program works as a service and automatically starts each time you switch your PC on. You can choose yourself the time interval for the account check. You can also setup the program scheduler to check your accounts at the specified day/time. After the message is processed the program can leave it on the server or automatically delete the message from the server depending on your settings.
In addition, G-Lock Email Processor has a fully automated bounce handling system which recognizes and classifies all types of bounced emails, auto-replies, challenge-responses, spam blocks, and etc. which makes G-Lock Email Processor an ideal solution for any online business that wants to take advantage of direct email marketing and communication with its customers.
Every email marketer receives a lot of emails. Whether they are transaction confirmation emails, tickets, requests for discounts, email forms, unsubscribe emails, bounces, all of them need to be processed. Processing incoming emails manually can be very challenging. There are many formats of emails which must be checked, analyzed and classified. You have to read each email, find the data you need, extract it and add to your database, or delete the record from the database, or save the data to the file, or whatever you need to do with the received information. It can literally take hours, or even eat up almost all your working time.
To release yourself from this tedious work, you can use automatic email processing software called G-Lock Email Processor. This little tool has all necessary email auto-processing features and reads incoming emails from POP3 and IMAP mailboxes. You develop a set of rules that determine how you want to process your incoming messages. A rule can include a filter which catches specific emails and other components determining what data to extract from the messages and what to do with the extracted data: save to a file, add to the database, delete from the database, or update the database based on the extracted data. Plus, you can send a reply to the customer immediately after the message is processed, or a few days later. Once the rule is setup and working, it will quietly process the emails on the background while you can focus on a more important job.
The program works as a service and automatically starts each time you switch your PC on. You can choose yourself the time interval for the account check. You can also setup the program scheduler to check your accounts at the specified day/time. After the message is processed the program can leave it on the server or automatically delete the message from the server depending on your settings.
In addition, G-Lock Email Processor has a fully automated bounce handling system which recognizes and classifies all types of bounced emails, auto-replies, challenge-responses, spam blocks, and etc. which makes G-Lock Email Processor an ideal solution for any online business that wants to take advantage of direct email marketing and communication with its customers.
Finding Honest Internet Business Opportunities, Honest Work From Home Is Possible
There is a plethora of inhabit ecstasying ways to make money on the internet and some may even offer honest internet arcdegree business opportunities with honest work from home projects. hitherto, there are many more that are looking at only to make money and once they have your fee to begin the business they may brush aside you totally or simply melt.
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Throughout the mature there have been many companies using multi-level marketing to make money for themselves and a opt few individuals and then disappear once they believe they have pulled all the money they can from an area. Prior to the use of the internet, these pyramid schemes, considered illegal in most states, simply looked to recruit individuals or couples into a potential scheme of having them recruit more people, recouping their initial investment by receiving a portion of the investment of those they were able to sign up.
With the use of the internet this exert is still being used under many another(a) names, but the concept corpse the same. A person is recruited and they must pay a fee to become a distributor of something, whether it is vitamins or public domain software. While they can earn money from selling the product they are promised even more money if they can recruit others to also become distributors. With the focus on recruiting, very few sales are made and no win are divided between you and the person you are able to recruit.
With honest internet business opportunities honest work from home opportunities will not ask you to talk to relatives and friends to entice them into connexion the business. Realistically, if everyone you know is selling the same product line, there will be no one left to whom to sell. An honest opportunity will be to offer a product or service that has high customer charm and will garner repeat business. Consumable items such as vitamins, cleansing products or office supplies are items that people will forever need need and if the service and quality is accepted will payoff for future dealings with the same company.
Honest internet business opportunities, honest work from home projects will not ask for money up front for supplies. They may require a distributor fee for the right to use an constituted company name, along with their past report and possibly the technology in which the company has an investment. However, they should also provide a working telephone number if you have any questions. When they list names for testimonials they should also have no trouble in supplying you a path of contacting them to verify their happiness with the company.
There should be a lot of transparency in an honest internet opportunity and you will be able to learn exactly what you are acquiring for the initial investment. They company should be majestic of their product and willing to share information with you if they are offering an honest work from home opportunity.
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Throughout the mature there have been many companies using multi-level marketing to make money for themselves and a opt few individuals and then disappear once they believe they have pulled all the money they can from an area. Prior to the use of the internet, these pyramid schemes, considered illegal in most states, simply looked to recruit individuals or couples into a potential scheme of having them recruit more people, recouping their initial investment by receiving a portion of the investment of those they were able to sign up.
With the use of the internet this exert is still being used under many another(a) names, but the concept corpse the same. A person is recruited and they must pay a fee to become a distributor of something, whether it is vitamins or public domain software. While they can earn money from selling the product they are promised even more money if they can recruit others to also become distributors. With the focus on recruiting, very few sales are made and no win are divided between you and the person you are able to recruit.
With honest internet business opportunities honest work from home opportunities will not ask you to talk to relatives and friends to entice them into connexion the business. Realistically, if everyone you know is selling the same product line, there will be no one left to whom to sell. An honest opportunity will be to offer a product or service that has high customer charm and will garner repeat business. Consumable items such as vitamins, cleansing products or office supplies are items that people will forever need need and if the service and quality is accepted will payoff for future dealings with the same company.
Honest internet business opportunities, honest work from home projects will not ask for money up front for supplies. They may require a distributor fee for the right to use an constituted company name, along with their past report and possibly the technology in which the company has an investment. However, they should also provide a working telephone number if you have any questions. When they list names for testimonials they should also have no trouble in supplying you a path of contacting them to verify their happiness with the company.
There should be a lot of transparency in an honest internet opportunity and you will be able to learn exactly what you are acquiring for the initial investment. They company should be majestic of their product and willing to share information with you if they are offering an honest work from home opportunity.
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I want to work at home and make money online. What is there to learn?
This is what beginners must be wondering about� "What is there to learn?" All the websites out there are talking about making money online, from comforts of one's home. They also mention that anybody can do it. A housewife, a retired, senior citizen, new mother, student anybody - and everyone has an equal to survive and succeed. "What is there to learn after all?"
The websites also say, you don't need money, experience or qualification to start a home business. All you need is a computer at home and internet access. Okay, I have a computer and access to internet. Now, what does it take? What do I need to learn?
Well, one step at a time. There are many kinds of jobs or business' you can do from home. You can join a program that will send you surveys and you will be paid to answer each one of these. See? It fits the bill. To take online surveys all you need is a computer and internet access. And everyone has an equal chance to survive and succeed.
Likewise you can buy a domain name, build a site of your own, (like I do) sell various products on it. When people buy from your site, you get your commissions. In this kind of home business you need to learn the techniques to move your website up the search engine. The techniques are available online. Free of cost. Techniques such as having tightly themed, relevant content on your site, optimizing, exchanging links, writing articles, attending and contributing in forums, placing press-releases.. and so on. They are simple step by step techniques that you pick up as you move ahead.
The home business website takes time to pick up. It also takes a while for you to get a proper hang of things. The learning is an ongoing process. Everyday something is upgraded. Every visit of google leaves footprints behind. You may have a question that needs immediate answering and you can get it answered right away.. You just have to know which word to type in the search engine to get what you want. And your query will be answered right there. If you have understood what I mean then, I can make it simpler for you. See, you have a website about home business and someone is looking for home business. When he/she types home business in the search engine, your site has to show within the first 5-10 options. This means you are high up in the search engine. And to reach here, is the name of the game! This is what is there to learn. How to position your site high up in the search engines for particular keywords (e.g make money online, work at home, home business etc). Once your site reaches here, you have to put in efforts to stay there. Even Julia Roberts and Tom Cruise have to make an effort to stay at the top, who are we?
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The websites also say, you don't need money, experience or qualification to start a home business. All you need is a computer at home and internet access. Okay, I have a computer and access to internet. Now, what does it take? What do I need to learn?
Well, one step at a time. There are many kinds of jobs or business' you can do from home. You can join a program that will send you surveys and you will be paid to answer each one of these. See? It fits the bill. To take online surveys all you need is a computer and internet access. And everyone has an equal chance to survive and succeed.
Likewise you can buy a domain name, build a site of your own, (like I do) sell various products on it. When people buy from your site, you get your commissions. In this kind of home business you need to learn the techniques to move your website up the search engine. The techniques are available online. Free of cost. Techniques such as having tightly themed, relevant content on your site, optimizing, exchanging links, writing articles, attending and contributing in forums, placing press-releases.. and so on. They are simple step by step techniques that you pick up as you move ahead.
The home business website takes time to pick up. It also takes a while for you to get a proper hang of things. The learning is an ongoing process. Everyday something is upgraded. Every visit of google leaves footprints behind. You may have a question that needs immediate answering and you can get it answered right away.. You just have to know which word to type in the search engine to get what you want. And your query will be answered right there. If you have understood what I mean then, I can make it simpler for you. See, you have a website about home business and someone is looking for home business. When he/she types home business in the search engine, your site has to show within the first 5-10 options. This means you are high up in the search engine. And to reach here, is the name of the game! This is what is there to learn. How to position your site high up in the search engines for particular keywords (e.g make money online, work at home, home business etc). Once your site reaches here, you have to put in efforts to stay there. Even Julia Roberts and Tom Cruise have to make an effort to stay at the top, who are we?
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