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!
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:
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!
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…
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!
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!”
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> .
Need help planning and orchestrating your” Clean Out Your Inbox Week” Campaign?
Visit http://eganemailsolutions.com/inboxweek.html for tools you can use to promote a weeklong campaign that will go straight to your bottom line. The best resource is the” Clean Out Your Inbox Week” eKit. This is a downloadable resource that will save you time and creative effort in building the campaign that your organization needs.
The eKit provides a complete intra-company plan to launch a corporately sponsored “Clean Out Your Inbox Week” campaign. The kit is divided into two parts:
Part One illustrates just how much email addiction and email mismanagement affects the productivity and bottom line of a given business – and the results are overwhelming.
Part Two then demonstrates a practical solution to run a successful “Clean Out Your Inbox Week” campaign, from concept to launch to the evaluation phase. The eKit also comes complete with resources, such as sample press releases, posters, and company announcements, as well as a suggested timeline for the initiative.
From January 25-29, 2010, we are challenging businesses and organizations throughout the world to take control of their email and regain lost time and profits.
Over the past decade, email usage has surged to staggering figures. Now, it is estimated that 247 billion emails are sent each day. Put another way, email users worldwide produce messages greater in size than over 16,000 copies of the complete works of Shakespeare each second! The 2008 AOL Email Addiction Survey revealed that 62% of at-work email users check their work email over an average weekend and more than 50% of Americans check their work email while on vacation. These shocking statistics go on, and it’s clear that in the new decade, email users must take control their email before it controls them.
Email is a very effective communication tool upon which businesses rely heavily. However, we have developed a dependency on email that saps productivity. Many people can’t keep up with their inbox and simply declare email bankruptcy.
“Clean Out Your Inbox Week” is a focused attempt to get businesses and organizations to work together to not only clean out their inboxes, but to take control of the e-mail Tiger that has invaded their business productivity. Whether the organization wants to set up their own program or use a tool that we have created – “Clean Out Your Inbox Week” eKit, the objective of this focused week is to help all participating organizations reclaim productivity that has been lost. Visit http://eganemailsolutions.com/inboxweek.html for tools to help you add megabucks to your bottom line…
Maybe we are looking at this all wrong… Businesses are downsizing because they can’t afford the employee salaries and extras. Don’t they realize that most workers who rely on e-mail to communicate could be sucking the business dry with unintentional productivity theft?
Sometimes it is not just cost saving. Rather, if you can reclaim the productivity that has been lost because of a near pandemic of productivity sapping e-mail habits throughout organizations, you’ll see it in your bottom line.
Consider the impact of getting 10%-20% more out of each worker? Now THAT’S what will re-energize the economy. See our prior posts for how to make this all work…
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