In Part 1, we looked at several ways to filter out the huge volume of spam and junk mail which threatens to eat up the time you should be spending building your home business.
In this article, we finish the list - and I share my very BEST tip.
The next way to protect your home business from junk mail is...
USE SPAM FILTERS ON YOUR COMPUTER
This is where you filter your email after it arrives on your home computer.
If you use Microsoft Outlook Express, there are various filters you can use. Microsoft calls them ‘rules'. To set up a rule, click Message then click Rules. To review existing mail handling rules, click Tools > Message rules > Mail.
Two of the rules options are 1) you can delete emails from any particular sender and 2) you can delete emails that contain certain words. But I should mention that this word-based control finishes up being a time consuming pest so I don't recommend it.
USE THE DELETE BUTTON OFTEN
The is the simplest solution of all.
Only read the few important emails. Delete the rest, sight unseen, time unwasted.
After trying various other solutions, this is now my favorite spam handling method (along with Gmail). It also works for the excessive volume of emails that come from mailing lists I've chosen to join.
Be very, very selective about which emails you actually open. Don't waste your time. Hit the delete button.
THE BEST JUNK MAIL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM...
Instead of filtering the UNWANTED stuff OUT, I now filter the WANTED stuff IN.
I skim down through my emails and select the few that I want to read and move them into an "Action Required" folder that I've created inside my inbox. (To create such a folder, select the word Inbox, right click, select Create.)
After I've selected what I want, the rest get deleted.
Deleting a ton of emails like that requires that you steel your mind, I know. Like you, I find it so easy to get distracted onto something that ‘looks interesting'. Most of the time it's a waste of one of my most precious resources... my time.
And it's probably the same for you. Be strong, my friend. Don't let email steal away the time you should be spending building your home business.
Finally, a suggestion...
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Article by Gary Harvey. Gary is an Internet Marketing enthusiast who has been earning a full time online income since 2003. Visit his website at http://HomeBusinessWinners.com and get a FREE copy of "HOME BUSINESS PROFITS START HERE".
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