Declutter for the New Year!

As we start the year it is always good to look for new ways to Declutter our lives and our Inbox!

Here are some helpful sites to get you started!

Junk Mail Opt-Out Lists

• National Do Not Mail List
• Credit Card and Insurance Offer Opt-Out
• Direct Marketing Association's Mail Preference 

Phone Book Opt-Out

• Yellow Pages
• Dex

4 Tips to Declutter Your Inbox

Despite the galactic rise in social media usage, email is likely still a big part of your every day life. Many of us have been using email for over a decade which has led to disorganized, cluttered, and productivity-killing mailboxes. The following tips focus on using features in Outlook to clean up your email clutter, but a lot of these tools can be found in other email platforms as well.

1. Set Up Rules
Outlook’s Rules feature offers a quick way to organize emails on a number of criteria, without having to manually move each and every message. Simply create a Rule, set your criteria and what action you want Outlook to take with any email that meets that criteria, and hit run. For example, you could have Outlook automatically move all emails from a specific sender to a specified folder. For Outlook 2010 instructions, click here. For Outlook 2007 instructions, click here.

2. View Emails as Conversations
Outlook 2010 offers a Conversation View so that multiple emails on the same topic are placed in one single conversation thread. This can really de-clutter your inbox in a hurry. Simply click the “View” tab and select “Show as Conversations” in the Conversations group.

3. Use Smart Contacts
Smart Contacts categorizes your contacts into three categories: Recent, Frequent, and Favorite. This makes it a lot quicker to find the person you’re trying to email when you have too many contacts. To download Smart Contacts, click here.

4. Set Up Junk Filters
97% of emails sent are junk. And even if your email host provides great spam protection, you still might see an occasional junk email find its way into your inbox. Outlook has a built-in junk filter that you can tweak to catch most junk emails. To learn how to adjust the Outlook’s Junk Filter, click here.

And if you’d like personal help cleaning up a cluttered, over-sized, or slow Outlook account, we’d be glad to help.
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Source: Small Business Technology