Going away on a trip always provides challenges in work. And, for web workers, the biggest challenge is one’s Email Inbox. Mine’s always a mess when I get back from a trip or even a short break.

So, how do YOU handle your email? What are your best email organisation tips?

Some great email tips I’ve heard over the years include:

1) Open and Action. Basically, if you open the email, you must do something about it – respond, delete, forward… This is a very useful tip, but I often find it difficult to follow in certain circumstances when I feel I need to think things over first before doing anything about it. But, for the most part, I do try to keep this tip in mind.

2) Filter, filter, filter! Make sure you activate your filters – put certain emails in some folders; kick most spam out of your inbox automagically…

3) Create autoresponders. If you are able to send auto email responses to certain mail that come your way, then by all means use that feature.

4) Label things! This is one of the reasons I’ve fallen in love with Gmail when it first came out a few years ago – the ability to label emails. I’m particularly fond of this for emails that I cannot follow Tip #1. If I can’t get to it quickly, it helps to add a label to it that will remind me to do something about it as soon as possible.

Any other email tips you’d like to share?

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Open Mic Monday: Best Email Tips

If you run a blog or a site that offers RSS updates, you might want to consider making your content available via email. Your readers and subscribers who wish to keep tabs on your blog/site but do not use feedreaders will probably appreciate this, especially if you publish full feeds.

There are several services available for this, and one of which is Feedblitz. You can either manually create your email newsletters – or get auto updates using your RSS feed.

I’ve been using their service for a few months and ‘am quite happy with them so far. It’s simple to set up. And there are customisations available, even for free users. You can customise the look of your newsletter, the number of times it’s sent out, the type of ads it runs, etc.

Recently, I found out that they also run a Feedblitz Ad Network, where people can buy advertising space in various mailing lists. And, those newsletter publishers who run these ads can earn some revenue from such advertising. Here’s a quick explanation of what Feedblitz Ad Network is about (from the site):

FeedBlitz’s email advertising programs enable advertisers to place targeted ads in newsletter updates, and bloggers and newsletter publishers to make money from (or “monetize’) their mailing list. It is an entirely self-serve and opt-in solution.

There are different variables to the earning capabilities of this program.
1) Free users are able to participate, but Premium users are given double earnings/revenue share.
2) List size (number of subscribers) will also affect your earning capabilities, as the number of times ads are viewed and clicked will have different effects.
3) The number of times you publish content via Feedblitz will also affect the earnings.

There’s also $25 payment threshold. Once that amount is reached, payment will be made 45 days later. Fees are payable only via Paypal at this time.

Since I’ve only started using the ad network, I’m not yet sure how good it is going to be. I’ll let you know more when I have more information.

If you use Feedblitz too, I’d love to hear about your experience.

Relevant Links:

• Advertising FAQ
• Premium Subscribers upgrade fees.

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