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Ask Me Anything: Keeping Email Under Control

I commented on Twitter earlier this week that I had entirely changed how I organize my email and I got a couple of requests to share how my new system works. It’s been several days and it’s working great, so I’m ready to share how I’m handling emails. The Setup There is some technology that [...]

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Clips, Spam Filters and Headaches

One of the reasons I immensely prefer posting my clips to my own website and then passing a single link to interested editors is the dreaded spam filter. I don’t know what it is about some of my clips, but they’ve landed my emails in the spam folder on more than one occasion — that [...]

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Professional Email Addresses: A Must Have

Most of the emails I get these days from other freelancers come from good email addresses. There’s not a lot of 2cute4u@email.com sorts of addresses flooding my inbox lately. My spam folder is, of course, another story. I’m glad to see that more and more freelancers are using some sort of email address that involves [...]

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What does your email signature say about you?

Have you seen those email signatures that have seven or eight inspirational quotes? Or cute emoticons and images? Or use weird, colorful, unreadable fonts? I think just about everyone with email has been guilty of one of these at some point or another. I used the word ‘guilty’, there. I implied that any of these [...]

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