Reduce the Email Inbox: Get Off Subscription Lists

You may have noticed that your e-mail in-box volume is growing rapidly. If you are like many people, it could be growing at a rate of 66% a year, according to the E-Policy Institute. According to a study by The Radicati Group, the average corporate email user will send or receive over 219 messages per day by 2013.

One step to managing e-mail volume to reduce your in-box clutter is to get off subscription lists.  Start now and unsubscribe to all those marketing and newsletter lists that you seem to which you have been subscribed. Most marketing and newsletter type e-mails, have ‘unsubscribe’ options noted at the bottom of the e-mail. These are typically hyperlinks that will connect you with an e-mail marketing service which will automatically remove you from the list. It may also provide you with alternate e-mail options such as, preferred topics and frequency of email. This is not to say that you couldn’t get yourself back on the list through reactivation if you wanted to, but it will take you off the majority of unsolicited e-mails.