Comments on: sale mail email account

By: The Best of Black Coffee: 43 of the Worst Personal Finance Articles of 2009

The Best of Black Coffee: 43 of the Worst Personal Finance Articles of 2009 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:41:28 +0000

[...] to Kelly’s site for lots of great money saving ideas. This week she gave a quick tutorial on how to set up a sale-mail account… On Wednesday I learned via Twitter that she won a raffle this week at Ikea! Congratulations, [...]

By: Black Coffee: My Favorite Blogs, Money News & Opinions #22

Black Coffee: My Favorite Blogs, Money News & Opinions #22 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:12 +0000

[...] to Kelly’s site for lots of great money saving ideas. This week she gave a quick tutorial on how to set up a sale-mail account. What’s sale mail? Well, suffice to say its a mail account that alerts you to sales at your [...]

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:03:14 +0000

I take the same approach as Kosmo, and have what I call my "non-personal" account. (It's the one with all the unread emails you commented on when you looked at my iPhone!)

I use it anytime I purchase anything, enter a sweepstakes, give my email to a financial company I do business with, or sign up for a message board. I do like the idea of having a separate account just for sale announcements, though, so I might segment even further. Thanks for the discussion and ideas!

By: kosmo @ The Casual Observer

kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:29:24 +0000

Yeah, 15 is excessive, but a lot of them are carried over from past activities. I have a Yahoo address that I have used for fantasy sports for a decade, 3 addresses though the personal domain my wife and I use (one for emails intended for both of us, one for emails intended for me, one for stuff of less importance), the GMail address I had when I started my blog on blogger, a couple address related to actual blog domain, my work email address, etc. To say nothing of the aliases that I have set up to enable gravatars for various writers for my blog

I do have most of them set up to funnel into one account, though So I don’t have to look in too many places.
kosmo @ The Casual Observer´s last blog ..A Guide to Character Development

By: @centsiblelife

@centsiblelife — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:10:31 +0000

Yep It's all about having an empty inbox for me.

By: @centsiblelife

@centsiblelife — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:09:53 +0000

Filters are a great way to avoid having a full inbox. I have used it in the past, but figured I need to lessen the temptation even more.

By: @centsiblelife

@centsiblelife — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:09:04 +0000

Same idea, different set up.

By: @centsiblelife

@centsiblelife — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:08:42 +0000

You can mark the messages you want as not spam, but I haven't had issues with it with gmail.
As far as being on the sending side, I think you want to make sure you don't oversend emails, and make sure they are relevant to your subscribers.

By: @centsiblelife

@centsiblelife — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:08:42 +0000

By: @centsiblelife

@centsiblelife — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:07:42 +0000

15? I'm all about being simple. I think 15 would make me crazy.