Comments on: How to Respond to 100 Emails in Under 20 Minutes

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:53:40 +0000

send and archive rocks robert!
i just did this an hour ago and
my gmail is clean.

thanks for putting that up.
i just found your site and
find your information
vital and helpful.

By: Robert Plank

Robert Plank — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:15:52 +0000

Thanks Mike I appreciate it, do you use Gmail?

By: Mike Adams

Mike Adams — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:42:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Robert. You have to be one of the most productive people I've ever seen!

By: Robert Plank

Robert Plank — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:23:57 +0000

Jason, I'm always paranoid about adding too much overhead to my business, and I suck at training people to do new things.

But I do like the Tab-Space tip to Send & Archive... I use Gmail shortcuts and I always wanted a shortcut to send and archive... now I have it.

By: Jason Fladlien

Jason Fladlien — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:16:36 +0000

Even better - you need to add the shorcuts feature... then you can hit just one letter - O - to open the top email message, then paste... then hit tab twice to send and archive it...

Or even better still... hire an assistant! 20 minutes of your time is worth about $30 to $40 right? You can hire someone for $10 an hour, and now it took you a minute to give them directions, and if it takes them an hour, you still save at least $20

-Jason

By: Robert Plank

Robert Plank — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:06:17 +0000

Ashish, I do use canned responses, but this time when I had the one message to send to 100 people immediately, it was faster to hit Ctrl+V than to select the canned response from a dropdown menu.

But I still do use canned responses regularly for support issues, refund requests, and lost download links.

By: Ashish Pawaskar

Ashish Pawaskar — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:43:48 +0000

Dear Robert,

Just my tip, instead of copying the response to clipboard and then pasting it in each message, enable "Canned Responses" in the Labs, page and then you can simply save your response as a canned response and select it to send it to the person.

Bonus: If you get your query string proper, you can even create a filter that sends the canned response automatically!

By: John Nada

John Nada — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:00:18 +0000

Awesome tip Robert, thank you! I like Gmail and am really accustomed to using it but it's nice to tweak it with tools
and of course, save time!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:07:14 +0000

"when you're Robert Plank it takes 20 minutes." haha

Thanks for the tip Robert. =)

By: Izzy

Izzy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:05:24 +0000

Robert,

You taught me to use labels and the archive folder. since then, my email box is usually empty, and its a breeze to find something with labels.

I have also begun to unsubscribe from pretty much every list that I am on, to reduce the amount of email i get.

if its an email I want to dissect in the future, i have a filter sending it straight to archive skipping the in box. so I have it if i need it, but I don;t have to see it or spend time on it.

And Robert, I love the way you discuss your messups and make them into positives- like this post!

will it lead to a new product? only time will tell.. but I don't put it beyond you.

Izzy

PS. Come check out the forum on Product University! Respond to my video I made for ya!