10 Tell-Tale Signs You’re Rocking Out Email
There’s a lot of buzz around email and innovation these days, and at the same time, it remains a tool AND like any other tool it needs to be used efficiently or else… it isn’t efficient.
Hence these 10 signs you’re rocking out email!
1) You’re too busy elsewhere PRODUCING, CREATING, SELLING, TEACHING, LEARNING to read your email right now… and more than a few times a day at most!
2) Your email isn’t open right now
3) You rock out the hottest email productivity apps out there: rapportive, boomerang, mailbox, sanebox, unrollme, contactually, nimble, awayfind and hopefully writethatname ;-).
4) You read Sanebox’s 100 email hacks and said… “Yeah… I do that”
5) You use email for what email is most productive for: outbound communication. For your internal needs you use yammer, trello, a chat software as the team at Angel List does—> nice read on why you should do this!
6) It’s 3PM and you’ve only processed your email twice… and you’re NOT on vacation 😉
7) You hesitate to “check” email on your mobile phone as it’s not a great way to efficiently process and move through the ACTIONS you need to take with each email (though mailbox has helped this with its boomerang-like functionality for the iphone).
8) Check email? You don’t even know what that means anymore. You PROCESS it, and are good friends with inbox zero.
9) You get out of your seat and talk to your co-worker as opposed to emailing them… #petpeeve
10)…. oh… that’s for you to add below in the comments 😉
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ouch. I’m obviously not rocking much… :'(
haha. maybe “rock” is subjective…
but we know that phat bottom rock certainly isn’t!
LOL
Related to this:
Assign your email a neutral (0) rating on rescue time and see what happens to your productivity. Composing or reading a long, thoughtful email is _still_ not captured by this system — and that is certainly valuable– but certainly helps you understand how much time you spend staring at it (as opposed to _doing_ something as a result of it).
Hey Ian,
Aha! …another fan of rescuetime. Love the service.
I keep it at (1) because I feel I’m using email productively but that it isn’t necessarily the most productive towards the more global goals of my position. That being said, you’re completely right that it’s only going to be able to give a very black/white (or -2,-1,0,1,2) value to this time.
It has helped me cut down my time there by 40% in the past few months, though, which is a plus!
[…] The experts say that email can suck the creativity out of your workflow if you’re starting off the day with it, and I’d say that if you’re letting email take more than 25% of your daily workflow, then it definitely is zapping your creative juices and productivity! Next month I’ll be doing a “Yeah, Email Sucks” webinar with Alex from ContactMonkey and we’ll be revealing our trade secrets, talking about what has most impacted our productivity and most importantly HOW TO ROCK YOUR INBOX. […]