7 Great Ways for Entrepreneurs to Fight Email Overload

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For most entrepreneurs, email management is nothing short of an art form. Yet, regardless of the countless hours that go into regaining a sense of control, often times many are left with an exhausting feeling of overload upon review of their email inbox. For those that are willing to invest time hunting down an effective solution, there are numerous options to make email overload, spam and message prioritization, problems of the past.

For example, spam and unwanted email can be dealt with by cancel membership websites and software. To assist in your effort, I have aggregated and summarized a bit of the landscape, all with the hope that you will find the solution(s) that provide you with the most time to attend to all of the other important aspects of your business.

Sanebox

Sanebox prioritize your messages in an attempt to “save you time and frustration.” Sanebox will create a new @SaneLater folder in your inbox containing messages that it believes can wait for later. As you drag messages into and out of this folder it begins to distinguish messages that are important from those that are unimportant.

Otherinbox Organizer

Organizer reduces spam by filtering all incoming messages, and “deals with the commercial email and social networking messages that you do want” by creating categorized subfolders with your emails sorted into them.

Xobni

Sometimes it is hard to put a face to every email you receive. After all, who wants to spend the time friending and following every person that sends you a message? If you are looking to avoid this hassle and gain insight on the relationship history you have with those you’ve emailed, I’d suggest you check out Xobni.

Emailga.me

If you are looking for a fun way to clear your Gmail inbox, then The Email Game just might be the perfect tool for you. As a player you are awarded points for taking action on the email in your inbox within your given time limit (whether that be deleting it, forwarding it or responding to it). This is a great way to perfect your quick response.

Zeromail

Zeromail automatically filters email newsletters, notifications and group posts into their own section of your inbox. Social profiles are then built around your email contacts enabling you to instantly know who is writing to you. Zeromail also has an integrated to-do list function that allows you to “turn your email into a task and be reminded.”

Liaise

What if you could automatically capture critical information in business emails and easily transform them into actionable items and reports. If you tend to collaborate with others on projects via email, I would suggest to check Liase.com out right now.

Courteous.ly

Do you think it would save time and stress if those around you knew what your current email situation was? Perhaps you should check out courtesous.ly, and automate the process of informing others when your email load is light, medium or high.

Do these email services make the cut? Are there any other email startups that you would recommend to your fellow entrepreneurs?