# Charting uncharted territory

Checking and answering emails can eat up a lot of your time. One recent statistic said the average office worker spends 28 percent of the day on email; others have quoted email time as much as 50 percent of the day. It's your advantage and success if you limit your email checking and reading as much as you can. Consider the following strategies:

Set a set time when you will check your emails. Set a duration as well. Above all, the ironclad rule is you will check your emails only once a day.

Set up your email system so emails you probably won't be interested in go to folders that you seldom check. When you do check them, maybe once a month, do a mass delete.

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You can train some email programs to automatically route emails, and the system becomes better over time at doing what you want it to. For example, I use Gmail and have set it up so I have five folders: primary, social, promotions, updates, and forums. I look at and respond to messages in my primary and updates folders and address messages in the social and forums folders only when I still have some time left in my email allotment.  A comprehensive range of treatments are available to treat eye conditions including [lens replacement surgery](https://www.laservisionscotland.co.uk/lens-replacement-surgery/) as well as simply changing your glasses. Why not get your organisation listed in a [Free UK Business Directory](https://freeukbusinessdirectory.co.uk/) to help to boost your profile online? As noted earlier in this Article, the promotions folder gathers email I might look at once or twice a month and then do a mass delete of sometimes 5,000 emails.

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Once I set up my email folders this way, I realized the way you word your promotional emails can have a major effect on your response rate. If Gmail identifies your email as a promotional email, that's a death sentence. I'm sure there are many just like me who have set up their email in a similar fashion and no longer read any of those promotional emails that flood everyone's mailbox.

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As an affiliate marketer who uses email marketing and is trying to reach as many people as possible, do everything you can when crafting your emails to avoid being automatically categorized as promotion (or spam). Email marketing can be a very effective technique in developing your affiliate marketing business.


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