Carve out more time with three simple tips:
Say it takes about 30 minutes to filter through and delete a hundred emails Monday through Friday—that’s 2.5 hours every work week or 10 hours per month that could be spent on more productive tasks. Stop and think about that. There is an opportunity to re-capture approximately 10 hours of time each month by simply taming your email inbox. Sounds great, right?
You may be surprised to hear this advice from me, a local marketing consultant who encourages small business owners to use digital media, blogging and email marketing to reach their target audiences, but here goes.
I’m suggesting that you spend 10 minutes per day for one month cleaning up your inbox—address them as they land in your inbox.
Turn off non-essential social media notifications and unsubscribe from eNews, blogs and marketing emails you no longer find value in. You know, all those emails that you delete every time they hit your inbox.
The goal is to decrease distractions, increase efficiency and reclaim extra time in your week for productive tasks—like business development and marketing, for example.
Read: three tips for taming your email inbox.
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