WEBVTT - Unsubscribe

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to take a few minutes to unsubscribe

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<v Speaker 1>from whatever you don't want coming into your life. While

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<v Speaker 1>deleting doesn't take much time, and there are email programs

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<v Speaker 1>that can help with this automatically, it's still good to

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<v Speaker 1>take stock of whether you want or use what's coming in,

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<v Speaker 1>so email can feel a lot less overwhelming. I should

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<v Speaker 1>start this episode by saying that I love email marketing.

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<v Speaker 1>I send a weekly and monthly newsletter, and I found

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<v Speaker 1>that it's a great way to keep in touch with

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<v Speaker 1>an audience. But life changes. Even a newsletter or discussion

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<v Speaker 1>group that you signed up for and bump to your

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<v Speaker 1>primary inbox maybe no longer fits your circumstances, or maybe

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<v Speaker 1>the emails come too frequently, or perhaps you love a

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<v Speaker 1>retailer but you're trying to cut down on your spending.

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<v Speaker 1>The issue with all this is that it tends to

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<v Speaker 1>take a little bit of time to unsubscribe, not much

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<v Speaker 1>at all, but sometime, and it takes almost no time

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<v Speaker 1>to delete. So whenever the unwanted email appears and we're

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<v Speaker 1>busy we make the easier choice. To break this habit,

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<v Speaker 1>you need a designated chunk of time for unsubscribing, So

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<v Speaker 1>how about today, carve out ten minutes to address what

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<v Speaker 1>you can, let the emails stack up through the day,

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<v Speaker 1>and then go in and follow the unsubscribed links for

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<v Speaker 1>anything you're not excited about anymore, or that you've caught

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<v Speaker 1>yourself deleting more times than you've opened up. If you

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<v Speaker 1>no longer follow an email based discussion group, take this

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<v Speaker 1>time to write the moderator and get yourself removed. There's

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<v Speaker 1>no need to pen and novel about it. Just say

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<v Speaker 1>that you appreciate the moderator's work, you've not been able

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<v Speaker 1>to be an active participant, and you'd like to exit

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<v Speaker 1>the group. If you have paid subscriptions, take a few

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<v Speaker 1>minutes to evaluate what you're getting out of the deal

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<v Speaker 1>and whether it's still worth it, and then possibly set

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<v Speaker 1>up another email address for promotions so any new advertising

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<v Speaker 1>goes there and not to your primary inbox. If you

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<v Speaker 1>don't have an email program that automatically does this for you,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll talk later this week about paper subscriptions, but we

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<v Speaker 1>spend a lot of time in our inboxes. The problem

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<v Speaker 1>with notes we don't read. Is that they make emails

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<v Speaker 1>seem more overwhelming, and they also trick us into checking

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<v Speaker 1>our inboxes more frequently. If we know something new will

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<v Speaker 1>always be there, or we see the number on the

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<v Speaker 1>email icon going up, it is so tempting to go

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<v Speaker 1>take a look, even if it's only stuff we don't

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<v Speaker 1>really want. But the cause of time management is seldom

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<v Speaker 1>helped by spending more time on email. So take just

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit of time today to lighten the load.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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<v Speaker 1>here's to making the most of our time. Hey everybody,

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