#AskPeshev 57: Make Email Great Again

#AskPeshev 57: Make Email Great Again

September 09, 2020

“As a rule of thumb, if your email is cluttered, clean it up, organize it with forwarders and group emails, and offload properly.”

— Mario Peshev

What’s your most favorite communication channel?Mine is email (followed by Twitter). Email is resilient and persistent, around for ages, accessible everywhere, available at all times, robust and flexible, free for use (mostly), easy to maintain across multiple “accounts” (business/personal). It integrates well with different services (through forwarders and things like Zaiper or IFTTT). But unless you spend a while on making email work, it will haunt you forever.I’ve gathered ten of my top email tips in my weekly post (linked below) and I’m always open to new paradigms worth testing from a productivity standpoint.In the meantime, make sure you check out my tips for Recruiter and my video on diversification during a pandemic.P.S. Video content worked for me for a little over a year, but responses and views have decreased right after. If you happen to be interested in more video content, let me know and I could do another set of tests in the interim.Mario

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