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Email Account Overload
By Denise Kirk-Murray, MBA | July 8, 2007
I was traveling for business recently and realized I couldn’t access all of my different email accounts since I was on the road. How many email accounts do I have, you ask. Well, there are the several accounts I have for my business. I operate two websites, www.growthsuccess.com and www.EntrepreneurTraining.com and of course I need email addresses for both. I have an AOL account for family and friends. Yahoo comes in handy for the online groups which I participate. There is the email to handle booking my speaking engagements. Oh, I volunteer as the coach for my daughter’s basketball team. (Champs 2 out of 4 years, YEAH!) I need to keep the team updated on game schedule changes. That’s another email.
Some might say that is a little much, but it was working for a while at least. My business emails are forwarded to my smartphone, but I am limited to three email accounts forwarded to the phone. I think I can only reply under one email address.
What to do? Go back to the days when email didn’t exist. (There was a time when email DIDN’T exist?) Use one email address for everything and scrap all the others. Stop living. None of those options work for me.
I am waiting for the technology to catch up. Now I know you can forward email but the problem comes in when you want to reply. If email is forwarded, your reply is from the forwarded address. You can also access the web based email option, but in that case you have to remember all of the different passwords and log into each individual account. I want all of my emails addresses accessible in one place and when I reply to an email, it shows it is coming from the correct email account.
I am sure an affordable option to do this exists already but I am too consumed responding to email that I haven’t had the time to research it. If anyone knows of a way to do it or if you feel my pain, send a comment on this post.
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