Clean Out Your Inbox Week – Friday’s Free Resource – “Reduce Your Email, Reclaim Your Productivity”

Today’s free resource comes with a slight hitch.  For you to receive this five-page PDF of e-mail best practices, you have got to have an empty inbox!

After all, it is Clean Out Your Inbox Week, isn’t it?  Email that screen print to us at info@marshaegan.com, and we will send you a link for this five-page PDF, entitled “Reduce Your Email, Reclaim Your Productivity.”

Good stuff — we promise!

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Clean Out Your Inbox Week – Thursday’s Free Resource – “Stop Urgent Emails” Posters

Urgent e-mails are toxic.  For a workgroup to truly get anything done, everyone in that workgroup needs to stop using e-mail urgently.  The best rule of thumb is that if anything is needed in under three hours, either pick up the phone, or visit.  We have designed three different posters which say the same thing — “If you need it in less than three hours, pick up the phone!”

Click here to select the poster color combinations that work best for you.

Here is a sample:

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Clean Out Your Inbox Week: Wednesday’s Free Resource – Online Assessment

If you haven’t done so already, take our spiffy  online assessment of your e-mailing practices.  20 questions about your incoming e-mail management and 20 questions about your outgoing practices…  how do you rate?

Click here to access the assessment that will open your eyes…

These are the same assessment questions that are contained in our book, Inbox Detox.  But the great thing is it will calculate your scores for you!

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Clean Out Your Inbox Week: Tuesday’s Free Resource – “Email Savvy” Mini Magazine

Is your inbox empty yet?

Here is an eight page, printable magazine entitled “E-mail Savvy,” that has a lot of great tips and information that will help you be more productive with your e-mail.  Please feel free to pass it on to anyone who you think will benefit…

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Clean Out Your Inbox Week: Monday’s Free Resource – 10 Best Practices of a Positive Email Culture

It’s Clean Out Your Inbox Week, and each day of this week we are providing our e-mailing and followers with free resources to spur them on to Inbox Zero.

Today’s offering is and 8 1/2 by 11poster that you can print and share with your workgroup.  It outlines the 10 best practices of a positive e-mailing culture, so if everyone can follow these practices, you will all find greater productivity.

Here is the link for you to register to receive this complementary PDF. Print a lot of them, and place them all over your office!

http://EganEmailSolutions.com/10best.html

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New E-mail Best Practices Assessment Unveiled for Clean Out Your Inbox Week

In the spirit of January, a time for new beginnings and personal improvement, we are challenging the world to rethink the way they use email this week. Therefore, we are announcing the launch of the third annual Clean Out Your Inbox Week. All week, we will motivate both individuals and businesses worldwide to take control of their email and regain lost time and profits.

This week, we will launch our  first-ever online assessment (http://eganemailsolutions.com/assessments.html) that will allow emailers to gauge the effectiveness of their email habits. This brand new 40-question survey is divided into two sections, and will rate users’ treatment of incoming and outgoing email messages. Based on the results, the survey will provide its users with advice to improve.

So, register now for our free assessment - see how you rate on a 100 point scale, for your INCOMING email and OUTGOING email practices!

Throughout the week, we will continue to blog daily and tweet  (@marshaegan) about the toxic email habits that pervade the  workplace and offer helpful tips and free downloads that businesses or individuals who want to take control of their inboxes can use.

So, register to receive your email version of our blogposts or subscribe to the RSS feeds so that you don’t miss all of the support you’ll gain from us during “Clean Out Your Inbox Week!”

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Smartphone while Driving – Worse than Drinking and Driving?

Here’s molecular biologist John Medina on the subject of multitasking while driving:

Until researchers started measuring the effects of cell phone distractions under controlled conditions, nobody had any idea how profoundly they can impair a driver. It’s like driving drunk … Cell-phone talkers are a half-second slower to hit the brakes in emergencies, slower to return to normal speed after an emergency, and more wild in their “following distance” behind the vehicle in front of them… More than 50% of the visual cues spotted by attentive drivers are missed by cell-phone talkers. Not surprisingly, they get in more wrecks than anyone except very drunk drivers.

(John Medina, Brain Rules)

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Why you need to empty email messages outa your Inbox… Audio

The Central Valley Business Times conducted an interview with me on why you should empty that inbox…

Here’s the link, for your listening pleasure!

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Free E-mail Productivity Tips Throughout” Clean Out Your Inbox Week”

Be sure to subscribe to our e-mailed blog posts or RSS feeds to make sure you receive all of the tips and hints that will help you clean out your own inbox, and those of those around you during” Clean Out Your Inbox Week”  January 25-29.

Throughout the week we will  offer helpful tips, free downloads, and other tools that businesses or individuals who want to take control of their inboxes can use on our blog, www.inboxdetox.com <http://www.inboxdetox.com/> .

Between reading, responding, and recovery time, the average email interruption takes four minutes of valuable work time. If a worker receives an average of 15 email interruptions per day, one hour of time is lost to email interruptions. If that worker is part of a 20-person department, 20 hours of work time are lost per day. Then, if the employees average $20 per hour, the company loses $2000 per week due to a loss of worker productivity.

There is a cure for our current email e-ddiction. If you practice productive email habits, you will not only loosen the grip email has on you, but you will also reclaim hours of productive time every day.

For more information on “Clean Out Your Inbox Week” visit the website at EganEmailSolutions.com <http://www.eganemailsolutions.com/inboxweek.html> .

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7 Habits of Highly Annoying Emailers…

Here is a great post by Dudley Dawson… enjoy!

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