The Number One Reason I Unsubscribed To Your Mail List

I used to be very wary about handing out my email address and joining mail lists. I would avoid subscribing to anything, even if it were websites and blogs I enjoyed, but over time, and with the appeal of free ecourses, reviews of which you can check out here and here, I've become a little lanx in giving out my email address and joining mail lists. This is now a serious problem, because as much as I've enjoyed my free ecourses, my inbox was no longer my own, so I cleared it out, got rid and unsubscribed from mail lists I didn't want to be a part of anymore.

But what made me unsubscribe? What was the big trigger for wiping my hands clean of those emails and waving goodbye to the senders who put them in my inbox? Possibly the most irritating, time consuming problem of all..

Receiving several 'promotional' emails in one day

There is absolutely no reason why you should be emailing your subscribers more than twice a day, and sometimes, even two is one too many. There's a difference between just emailing your mail list to keep them 'in the know' and spamming them with emails too many. I'd been suffering from the latter, and I decided I'd had enough.

How I Use Labels in Gmail To Organise My Inbox

I don't know about you, but I can get anywhere from 10 to 30 emails a day, and that's my email that deals with everything blog related. Whether it be newsletters I'm signed up to, ecourses I find myself enrolled on, emails to say I've recieved blog comments, or just plain old actual emails concerning Nellie and Co, it can get cramped and full pretty quickly. I managed quite easily with a messy inbox for quite some time, but it's when I started enrolling on free ecourses that it became too much to bare.

By not having an organised inbox, I couldn't find emails when I needed them most.

I knew from that point onwards I had to create some sort of organised system which would not only help me located my ecourses, and remember who the heck was the brains behind them, but also organised almost everything else that came in for future reference. Low and behold, Gmail gave me a gift in the form of labels, and my inbox hasn't been the same since.

Woah there Amanda, Gmail has labels?

Why yes, yes it does. Gmail, like everything else, likes it when you keep yourself organised, and it's nice enough to offer a helping hand in the form of labels. Labels allow you to tag something under a subject, or many subjects, or nest it under a category, so you can create a collection of somethings.

Labels allow you to organise, and colour code your inbox so you can, once you've labelled them, refer back to something easily, locate something with much more ease, or simply have everything under one subject in front of you at the touch of a button. Labels have 100% helped me clean up, organise and make my inbox a happier place, and here's how.