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Clean Up Your Email: Whip Your Inbox Into Shape in an Hour
Your inbox is a mess and you need to clean up your email. That’s okay—because, in an hour or less, your email accounts are going to be in much better shape. Here’s how to do it.
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Email Security Best Practices to Avoid Password Hacks in Gmail
Just as you want your home, vehicle, and devices to be safe, email security best practices help you keep your inbox out of the grips of hackers and other bad actors in the data world. Email security can seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be.
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How to Say I’m Sorry: Apology Email Template
No matter how they happen, mistakes are a fact of business. Sooner or later, you will have to send a solid apology email. Here’s how to write one, and an email apology template to help you get started.
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How to Reduce Customer Service Email Response Times to One Hour or Less
Email response times for your own inbox can be tough enough to tame, but a bigger challenge awaits. Your organization can no longer rely on the “ole good enough” customer service email reply time standard of 24 hours.
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Out of Office Email: How to Handle Email When You’re On Vacation
You shouldn’t bring your email with you on vacation—but no one wants to come back to the office and confront an out of office email catastrophe. Here’s how to set up your inbox so that you can leave it behind without all the stress and worrying.
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Sharing Passwords Hurts Your Business—Do This Instead
Sharing passwords can hurt your business—and there are better ways to get the job done that won’t put your operation at risk. Here’s how to collaborate via email without sharing email passwords.
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Create Shared Team Inboxes for Your Company for Better Productivity
Setting up a few specific inboxes is the first step to getting organized and delegating email tasks with confidence. Here’s how to create a shared inbox system that works for your business, and makes you more productive.
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Follow Up Email Etiquette: Get a Response Without Being Annoying
You’ve sent the email. You’ve waited. But it’s been a couple of days, and you haven’t heard a reply. It’s time to send a follow-up email—but the challenge is how to get a response without you coming across as annoying, aggressive, or desperate.
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5 Best Business Email Sign Offs for Busy Professionals
Day after day, you put in the hard work to write solid emails. Then you get to the end—and the panic sets in. How the heck are you supposed to figure out the best sign off for your casual (or formal) business emails? Here’s a list of the best email sign offs that you should be using.
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Slack Versus Email? They Can Coexist
Can Slack and email coexist? Can their respective strengths even balance out each other’s weaknesses? Here’s how the two can work together—and what you should avoid.