If you are like me then you probably have at least 3 email accounts. For awhile there I used hotmail for junk, yahoo for personal/newsletters, and then had 2 different work email accounts. On top of that I have one email account for OH&H that tells me when someone posts a comment and to top things off I have a gmail account for only personal emails and ZERO junk comes to it. I like that. So I have finally dumped the hotmail and formed a junk gmail account. It’s good to have a junk email so every time you have to sign up for something then all your spam and stupid emails will go to one place.
Some people have tried gmail and hate it. I personally love it. Yes it is different but I love change so maybe that is why I enjoy it. I like that all your emails are in one place and you never have to delete. If any of you out there are wanting an invite (gmail is by invite only) then just email me at sb@organichalfandhalf.com and I’ll shoot you an invite.
The reason for this post wasn’t really to start a word of mouth campaign for Google but to tell you a cool little trick I learned on gmail. Lets say my gmail account was: sb@gmail.com. Well, if you put a plus sign (+) right after sb then you can put any word you want after the sb and it will still come to your gmail account. For example: sb+organic@gmail.com. I could give that email address out to anyone emailing me about OH&H. or I could do sb+junk@gmail.com and only hand that out when I have to sign up for something. If I want an email just for newsletters or weekly updates maybe I could have sb+news@gmail.com. either way once in gmail I can set up LABELS for each particular email address that I have sent out. And when an email comes into to lets say sb+news@gmail.com then it will automatically get LABELED into the Newsletter part of your gmail. Just an easy way to keep track of all things in gmail.
It’s also great if you want to know who is selling your email address. Because if the only time you gave out sb+clothes@gmail.com is when you signed up at Urban Outfitters and then all of a sudden you get a Viagra email to sb+clothes@gmail.com…well then…you can go set fire to UO with confidence.
Happy Googleing,
SB
