Comments on: Approaching Inbox Zero

By: Jay Thompson

Jay Thompson — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:34:55 +0000

Just for the historical record, I wrote this post almost nine months ago.

I’m currently at Inbox 12,025….

[sigh]

By: Obeoman

Obeoman — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:45:43 +0000

Well…I missed Inman (again)…so I thought it was OK to have, say, like 70 to 100 legit emails a day.

Email is easy-eventually.

Making one minute phone calls is a lot harder. I would rather twitter.

Steve
Oboeman

By: John Wake

John Wake — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:05:23 +0000

Jay,

A trend I noticed at the Star Power conference was teams hiring a “Leads Manager,” “Lead Incubator” “Online Coordinator” type position.

They tend to work leads thoroughly until the lead becomes an “A” lead who is ready to go out and buy a home. At that point, the lead is handed off to a buyer specialist. The conversion rate for one team quadrupled.

Jay, you’re getting pretty big. Do you have an assistant? Can you off load these template emails to her? Or better still, have her get all the emails and have her send you only the ones that need your action.

Anyone know of virtual assistants that will do this kinda stuff?

By: CWaterhouse

CWaterhouse — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:59:13 +0000

JT –

I get flustered just looking at an inbox with 100+ messages … 100 opportunities to connect, 100 opportunities to do business, 100 people who want to know more about (something) – I just can’t imagine 8000.

Without sounding condescending, I’m proud of you. I’m sure your effort will produce great results.

By: Steve Belt

Steve Belt — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:50:32 +0000

I saw the tweets about inbox zero and was able to get from inbox 1000 to inbox 400 in an hour. Still need to work on it, as its a natural part of my annual ritual around Christmas that balloons out of control throughout the year.

By: Irina Netchaev

Irina Netchaev — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:32:23 +0000

Hi Jay, it doesn’t matter how I try, I can’t seem to get my emails to even under 100. I’ve seen the video and tried to apply it – maybe my attitude is not quite there and I just don’t want to do it.

My dilemma comes from this, when my laptop crashed, I lost all my emails (yes… I didn’t back it up- stupid!) I survived without them. Yes… there are a few emails that I truly needed since, but it was okay. Why is it that I can’t implement the suggested steps above? Rhetorical – no answer needed

By: Glenn fm Naples

Glenn fm Naples — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:14:41 +0000

Time management always preached respond, delegate, read later, or trash with the idea of “touching a piece of paper once”. Outlook with filtering does this well and keeps my inbox empty.
For those of you will a big inbox and using outlook, just sort by either sender or subject and you can easily delete some of those e-mails that are totally worthless in keeping or reviewing.