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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to check your spam folder. Even the best

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Speaker 1: email programs sometimes send messages to the wrong place. By

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Speaker 1: checking once a week or so, you just might find

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Speaker 1: something interesting. So, like many people, I process my main

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Speaker 1: inbox to current every few days or so. But a

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Speaker 1: few months ago I remember feeling like it was strange

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Speaker 1: that I hadn't heard from someone. This person had seemed

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Speaker 1: quite adamant in an earlier conversation that they would be

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Speaker 1: reaching out about something soon. So on a hunch, I

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Speaker 1: checked my spam mailbox and sure enough, the message was there.

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Speaker 1: It was several days old at that point, but it

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Speaker 1: was there, and it was better to have read it

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Speaker 1: than not read it. And while I was there, I

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Speaker 1: also found a nice message from someone who had read

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Speaker 1: my books. I definitely wanted to respond to that one. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to print that particular message out. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: spam at all. I was a little miffed that my

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Speaker 1: email program thought it was. Now. Of course, those two

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Speaker 1: worth while messages were located in the middle of about

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Speaker 1: one hundred other messages that were pure garbage, I mean

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Speaker 1: Nigerian Prince level scam stuff. But it didn't take very

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Speaker 1: long to scroll through the one hundred garbage messages. I

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Speaker 1: was glad I checked, and maybe you will be too.

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Speaker 1: So today's episode is just a reminder that your primary

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Speaker 1: inbox may not be the sum total of all the

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Speaker 1: messages you are receiving. Most email pros try to sort

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Speaker 1: what is useful from what is not, and often they

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Speaker 1: do a really good job, but on occasion they don't.

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Speaker 1: You probably don't want to check your spam folder too closely,

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Speaker 1: as that is largely going to be a waste of time.

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Speaker 1: Checking once a week, on the other hand, means that

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Speaker 1: you can find anything that you truly do want to

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Speaker 1: see and you will still be responding in a reasonably

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Speaker 1: timely manner. So that is what I aim to do

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Speaker 1: on Fridays. If I am triaging my inbox from the

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Speaker 1: week and seeing what I still need to follow up on,

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Speaker 1: I take a quick glance at my spam folder in

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Speaker 1: the past week. I found some music from one of

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Speaker 1: my kids teachers. I guess the filter didn't like the attachment,

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Speaker 1: and a message from the school. It just took a

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Speaker 1: few minutes to look, and it turned out that those

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Speaker 1: were minutes well spent. Have you ever found anything important

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Speaker 1: in your spam folder? I'd love to hear about any

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Speaker 1: near misses. You can reach me at Laura at Laura

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Speaker 1: vandercam dot com. If the message does go to spam,

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Speaker 1: don't worry, I will see it within the week. In

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Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's

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Speaker 1: to making the most of our time. Thanks for listening

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Speaker 1: to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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