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Do you remember the time before email and the Internet existed?  Possibly you are too young to know, but assuming my memory is not playing tricks on me I’m sure life was a little less hectic and pressured than it is today.

In the UK the Postman would deliver the mail in the early morning and if you were lucky you might have got another delivery in the afternoon.  You could count the number of letters on the fingers of one hand and as to unsolicited mail (spam) that went straight into the WPP without the danger of it corrupting your hard drive! - We just didn’t have hard drives to corrupt!  Aren’t I just showing my age!!!!

How different life is today!

Emails ping into your inbox throughout the day demanding immediate attention like a spoilt child!

If you have content on any of the Social Networks like Facebook or MySpace or content sharing sites such as digg.com or stumbleupon.com your email can mount up inexorably and leave you little time to attend to the important activities of the day.

So, how do you manage this activity? Well I can only tell you what I do and hope that you might find my ideas useful - working this plan means I can focus on the really important activities that I follow to make money on the internet.

It’s time for a spring clean of your email account.

• Create several email accounts with different providers such as Google and Yahoo in addition to that provided by your ISP which you will perhaps consider as your primary email address
• Use your primary email for important activities that may require your immediate attention such as from colleagues with whom you are working during the day and your immediate family.
• Use the other accounts for your Internet sign-ups, perhaps one for your Social Network activity and the other for your Internet business connections such as affiliate programs.
• Check these accounts twice a day unless you need to respond to an email conformations request.
• Switch off email notification of new friends and shouts from your social sites and deal with these matters at a convenient time of the day and perhaps only once a day at that!
• Delete emails as you read them unless they contain important information in which case create a folder within your email program.
• Use you diary system to remind you to check your email folders once a month to empty the folders of emails that weren’t important after all!
• Use a Spam Identifier such as MailWasher. This program identifies spam or suspect emails and allows you to delete them before they are downloaded onto you computer

Hope this helps someone.  And please add your comment and ideas too - thanks.