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2,433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur

techcrunch.com — The benefits of the new ways we communicate also mean there’s a lot more of it. The volume of communication requests for most people today are far, far beyond what they can handle. Few people today respond to every communication they receive. Someone out there has the beginning of an idea on how we can better manage our electronic communication.

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  • seantubridy, on 03/24/2008, -0/+55If you get 1000 legitimate business inquiry emails a day and you haven't figured out that you need to hire a staff to handle that, then:
    1. You're probably lying or
    2. There's something wrong with your business sense and I feel sorry for anyone entering into and dealings with you.
  • footodors, on 03/24/2008, -0/+27thought he had a solution or something.
  • nova912, on 03/24/2008, -3/+26All the subject lines are probably something along the lines of...
    RE: m@ke your pen15 hug3!
  • chrissku, on 03/24/2008, -1/+20How did this advertisement end up on the front page of Digg?
  • Nicksname1, on 03/24/2008, -0/+18I have a solution:
    Select All-->Mark As Read
  • jturbo, on 03/24/2008, -0/+16Confucius Say "Venture Capitalist that makes no time to reply to his email will always venture but will never capitalize."
  • artificialgrey, on 03/24/2008, -3/+18Pointless article - this guy is just an attention-whore lazy douche - whole thing sounds like he's bragging about how ***** lazy he is. Don't know why anyone who want to get a hold of this guy, as his writing is so boring and uninspired. Buried.
  • jackyyll, on 03/24/2008, -0/+13Yeah seriously.. This article was about.. nothing...
  • inactive, on 03/24/2008, -1/+10Agreed and anyone that periodically declares "email bankruptcy" and deletes all emails is an idiot. Just the other day, I received an email from a complete stranger that wants to give me millions of dollars for FREE! Just think if I declared "email bankruptcy" before reading THAT email.
  • inactive, on 03/24/2008, -1/+10I find it annoying
  • pilot3033, on 03/24/2008, -0/+9pulling out your cell phone and talking if you are already in a conversation can be very insulting. At the very least, it will make the person you are talking with question what is more important, and then ask them self why you two are even talking.

    Exceptions to the rule, yes. Often, if I am expecting phone calls I will let the people I am with know to expect it. If it rings and I wasn't expecting it, I quick check of caller ID, and an "I'm sorry, give me one moment..." if it's from family/may be urgent. Otherwise I silence the phone and send the to voicemail.

    Answering the phone without saying anything, and just stopping the conversation is not healthy, and many people probably won't say anything, but having been on that end several times myself, I know that it is best to just wait until later to check the voicemail.
  • emptyo, on 03/24/2008, -0/+7The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss addresses this subject in full. He outsourced his email to a personal assistant in India that goes through it, sorts it, and summarizes it. Pretty cool...
  • webosb, on 03/24/2008, -0/+6ever try filtering with gmail or using message rules in outlook? he needs to learn how to use these features
  • luke374, on 03/24/2008, -0/+5Solution:
    Get a second email address, and don't ***** whore it out to the world.
  • Radica1Faith, on 03/24/2008, -0/+5umm...inbox filters have always worked fine for me.
  • j1a1g1, on 03/24/2008, -1/+6Either an opportunity for an Entrepreneur or an excuse for one to be lazy!
  • oo7evan, on 03/24/2008, -5/+101. Auto reply BS answers
    2. ???
    3. Profit
  • rjc1187, on 03/26/2008, -0/+41. Try to be clever by using a south park joke that died a long time ago
    2. ???
    3. Nobody profits
  • kwagsch, on 03/24/2008, -1/+5Also, you can try CTRL+A, then DELETE...
  • yabos, on 03/24/2008, -0/+3It's not insulting if you're around other people but if you're in the middle of talking to someone and the phone rings you should not take the phone call over the conversation.
  • fuckinhell, on 03/24/2008, -0/+3Or another situation is when you are talking to someone over the phone and they say, I have a call coming in, hang on. Or even worse, they call you and say that. WTF. CALL THEM BACK!!!! You are talking to me right now. Rude bastard.
  • kinerry, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2This is why you would have people you know mark their emails high priority or have them add something to the subject line
  • aetherboy, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2I don't mean for this to be considered "blog spam" but I actually started a blog on how I deal with this stuff earlier this year that has some practical information. I won't put the complete link here, you'll have to piece it together a bit so as to hopefully not piss off all the Diggers who label every blog as blogspam. You can check it out at: infoswamp dot com.
    I'm horrible at dealing with this kind of overload myself and its funny the kinds of things you realize about it when you're putting yourself under a microscope. For example, I found out i'm the king of procrastination and I'm willing to do lots of annoying little tasks to put off the big ones. This helps me get through email since if you put your mind to it, realistically you can get through an average email in 5 minutes or less.
  • glinsvad, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Are you saying gmail wouldn't be able to handle the volume or that it would be unmanageable by webmail? Gmail has POP3 you know...
  • mediaspree, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2This was Kevin Roses idea for a new web app. at the "Future Of Web Apps" conference in Miami. Just Sayin...
  • 11oops, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2If you claim to get 1000+ business emails a day and are still using a gmail account, what are the odds that you're 100% full of *****?
  • inactive, on 03/24/2008, -5/+7I admit it. My email response rates are lame. I have tried many different approaches and techniques, yet I fail.

    "yet I FAIL!." As you always will.

    Bury this *****.
  • propagandhi, on 03/24/2008, -1/+3This is so bad, I don't know whether to bury it as SPAM or just LAME. BURIED
  • quisph, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2Oh, ffs. Hire a personal secretary if your prominence in the world is such that you can't keep up with your correspondence. This is not a new problem.
  • phre3k187, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2buried
  • seantubridy, on 03/24/2008, -3/+4If you are the person with the idea to save us all, send me an email and tell me all about it. Actually, strike that. Drop by my house and tell me all about it. I don’t want your message to get lost in my inbox. Ha ha ha ha! See, that's funny because I get a lot of emails! Oh, I crack me up.
    No, but seriously, don't drop by my house.
  • UpBeetRob, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Kevin Rose talked about this at FOWA, they come up with some reasonable solutions / reasons why this might not be feasible to solve. Although I imagine anyone getting that many emails would be reasonably successful and able to afford a service that handles this issue well.

    http://www.futureofwebapps.com/pastevents.html
  • pcpimpster, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Stop sipping your latte and ***** get to work already.
  • jcaino, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2sounds like someone has a catch-all mailbox...
  • saxreturns, on 03/24/2008, -3/+4"Today, answering the phone when you are around other people is considered insulting."

    Since when? I've never had any complaints and I don't mind when other people do it.
  • domokunt, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2Some people just love to "have a lot on my plate" just so they can feel important. Even if its stuff which most people could deal with more efficiently.
  • petecampbell, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Co-oridinate emails by keyword. If 10 people ask a similar question, a system will merge all those emails into a thread (data obtained by the keywords) - ready for you to quickly reply to them all.

    Should I head to the patenting office?
  • inactive, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2What value did I get out of reading that, again?
    And why would someone hire a writer that is obviously an idiot and should be mowing lawns for a living?
    (not that a person can't find honor in mowing laws - just that it has minimized exposure to computers!11!!)
  • wiifm69, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1they are called PA's
  • eregorn, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1There is a fine art to saying absolutely nothing with many words.
  • xsecretfiles, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Maybe you are having way too much e-mail beacuse you haven't learned to setup your POP-mail acount or the i-map thing?

  • bobdylan27, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1what a pointless article.
  • mrjoanofarc, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2Mine has 3181. :/ Just cause I imported my Gmail to the Mac mail client. :P I'm slowly going through my old emails and reliving the past... http://i30.tinypic.com/11rvpmq.png
  • dougbarrett, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1and you don't read it??
  • CCB0x45, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Wow, idiotic comment and a signature... you know there is no auto signature for a reason right? But sweet toothbrush blog.
  • christophelyon, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1GTD is the solution.
  • habenneas, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Fast text mirror: http://www.lynxcache.org/usr/1/2_433_Unread_Emails ...
  • ultrasparc, on 03/24/2008, -0/+0It's called a spam filter.
  • drrichard42, on 04/05/2008, -0/+0This is bad news for people who use email marketing as a channel
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