Ok, I admit it. I’m a sucker for a well-written sales page.
Many, many times, I have promised myself that I wouldn’t buy anything else to do with internet marketing.
There is so much stuff on my hard-drives that it would take me years to read a small portion of it all. I’ve even bought some things twice. Whenever I want to buy something, I have to do a thorough search to make sure I haven’t already got it.
The start of my downfall was when I started to join giveaways. My details were added to so many lists that a few times, my inbox has reached almost 25,ooo emails. Right now, there’s a dash over 11,000.
I’m starting to get them under control. There’s a very noticable trend forming. Only a small percentage of the marketers that email me actually contribute to my knowledge without only trying to sell me something.
Here’s how I’m bringing my emails under control.
1. Changed from Outlook Express to Thunderbird. Outlook Express was choking under the number of emails I was getting. ( I keep all my emails – hate to think how many tens of thousands I have )
2. At the moment, I get over 200 emails a day. I know, it’s crazy. There’s an addon called Tag the Bird. I use this to tag any emails that have an interesting subject or are from a marketer I like.
3. When the emails build up to over ten thousand, I sort them alphabetically and delete all from the same marketer that have no tags on them. This way, I can get rid of thousands in half an hour or so. I unsubscribe from any that are ONLY trying to sell me something.
Slowly, I’m getting the number of emails received down……
Robjohn
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This post was written by Robjohn on September 24, 2008
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