Unsubscribe

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Simple Setup for this Game Challenge

Create a Folder, Label or Mailbox in your email system and call it UNSUBSCRIBED!

This folder will allow you to track your unsubscribes.

• Go through the unsubscribe process on an email.
• Once you unsubscribe, delete all but one of the emails they’ve sent you.
• Move that one email to your UNSUBSCRIBED folder. If they send you anymore emails you can troubleshoot why and how. (and prove to yourself that you are not crazy)

Visit your social media accounts and adjust your notifications

In social media, you can manage the notifications you receive based on the activities of others.

• Get (or not get) email notifications
• Get (or not get) text notifications

Visit the settings on your phone and adjust your notifications

iPhone

• Go to Settings –> Notifications –> look for the app and adjust

Android

• Go to Settings –> Apps –> Notifications –> look for the app and adjust

Deeper Work and Strategy for this Game Challenge

Unsubscribing from emails seems like a super simple task, but there are some pitfalls and questions you may have. You may worry that the sender won’t respect your unsubscribe and keep sending you emails or worse add you to more lists. You may worry that the work you do won’t really matter and that you will always be buried by overwhelming emails. Worry not. You can conquer this!

As you go through your inbox look for your email newsletters and announcements. You will notice 3 types.

• The ANTICIPATED emails and newsletters you really like to see and read almost as soon as they pop into your inbox (you hate to miss them).
• The USEFUL newsletters that you sometimes need and usually enjoy but you don’t need to read them right away (or ever).
• The CLUTTER newsletters that you don’t read, don’t enjoy or irritate you when they clutter your inbox.

Let’s start backward.

STEP 1: Unsubscribe from CLUTTER

Go through your email inbox and unsubscribe from every newsletter that you have deemed CLUTTER.

HOT TIP:

If you want to keep a record of your unsubscribes you can create a folder called “UNSUBSCRIBED” and put one of the offending emails in it. (just be sure to actually go through the unsubscribe process). In the BLOG POST: Get off that list I offer more details about the unsubscribe process and why it can be difficult to get off of some lists.

STEP 2: Create Filters for USEFUL

If you do not need to read an email newsletter right away you can filter it or create a rule that will send the email directly to a “NEWSLETTER” folder so you can read it when you feel like it and it will never clutter your inbox.

STEP 3: Read your ANTICIPATED

For the email newsletters that you look forward to and want to make sure you read as soon as you can you don’t need to do anything special. These emails can be treated like any other email that triggers a task. You can move it to your “!TO DO” folder or “star” it so you can find it easily.

Or, as soon as you finish unsubscribing from 5 emails and set 4 email filters you can reward yourself by reading one of your favorite email newsletters right now.

Resources Associated with this Game Challenge:

BLOG POST: Get off That List