Email is a great communication tool, but it can be a huge drain on your productivity—especially if you receive a lot of email and can’t get to your inbox right away. Consider this surprising stat: the average employee spends a whopping 13 hours a week simply reading and responding to emails. That racks up to a mind-boggling 650 hours a year!
Inbox zero may seem like an unachievable goal—and if you spend all of your time in your inbox, responding and processing email, you’re probably taking time away from other equally important tasks. If you’re reaching your email boiling point, we might have a solution: SaneBox.
SaneBox is an email filtering service designed for teams—and simply put, it helps your company manage email chaos. For a nominal cost ($10 to $25/month per user), SaneBox tackles your inbox by completing the following tasks:
– Analyze importance of incoming emails
– Move unimportant emails to a separate folder
– Summarize your emails into a digest
– Work like a personal assistant that does not let unimportant tasks interrupt you
Sounds promising, doesn’t it? If you decide to use SaneBox, it works on your current mail infrastructure—no installation or file download required. Once you’ve set up SaneBox, the filtering tool works by creating a folder in your email account. When new email is received, SaneBox goes to work and decides if it goes into the trash bin or if it stays in your inbox. You can check your filtered emails anytime by going to your SaneBox folder. Plus, you’ll have access to the following features:
One-click unsubscribe: With just one click you can unsubscribe to spam emails and move those emails immediately to trash.
Defer non-urgent emails: As mentioned earlier, most emails can wait. With Sanebox, you will be able to defer emails of your choosing so you can deal with them at a later time.
Follow up reminder: Sanebox will also remind you when an email you sent goes unanswered for a certain length of time.
Dropbox integration: This functionality is a favorite as it cleans up your storage space and keep you organized allowing you to send attachments to your Dropbox folder.
Salesforce integration: This functionality allows you to filter your inbox based on income potential.
Interested in a test drive? SaneBox is offering a free 14-day trial so you can dive in and see if it might be an ideal solution for your team. And if you do give it a try, stop back by and let us know what you think.
In the meantime, it’s time to ‘fess up. Have you figured out an ideal email management solution? Or is your inbox the bane of your existence?
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Shelly Kramer is a Principal Analyst and Founding Partner at Futurum Research. A serial entrepreneur with a technology centric focus, she has worked alongside some of the world’s largest brands to embrace disruption and spur innovation, understand and address the realities of the connected customer, and help navigate the process of digital transformation. She brings 20 years’ experience as a brand strategist to her work at Futurum, and has deep experience helping global companies with marketing challenges, GTM strategies, messaging develoment, and driving strategy and digital transformation for B2B brands across multiple verticals. Shelly’s coverage areas include Collaboration/CX/SaaS, platforms, ESG, and Cybersecurity, as well as topics and trends related to the Future of Work, the transformation of the workplace and how people and technology are driving that transformation. A transplanted New Yorker, she has learned to love life in the Midwest, and has firsthand experience that some of the most innovative minds and most successful companies in the world also happen to live in “flyover country.”