Tuesday, June 05, 2007

10 ways to get a grip on your e-mail
Posted by Sean Rehder (Permalink) | 0 Comments


By Anne Fisher, Fortune senior writer

"(Fortune) -- Here is a startling bit of arithmetic: If you get and send 100 e-mails a day, that adds up to 24,000 messages annually, on which you probably spend an average of 100 workdays. If you could manage to reduce the amount of e-mail you send and receive by 20%, you'd free up 20 workdays a year to use for other things, like thinking up new ideas that could help further your career or, heck, taking a longer vacation."

Here they are (full details):
  1. Send less
  2. Quit boomeranging
  3. Stop - then send
  4. Be polite, up to a point
  5. Schedule live conversations
  6. Strengthen your subject lines
  7. Structure matters
  8. Save purposefully
  9. File smart
  10. Coach - or suffer