Poll: When you access your inbox which emails do you handle first? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | neilmac Spain Local time: 23:48 Spanish to English + ... Current clients | Mar 11, 2012 |
In my "business" email account, current clients obviously come first, and they are usually faster to deal with since I don't have to haggle about rates and formats etc. With prospective clients I have to engage in more time-consuming communication and negotiation. In my other mail accounts, my first action is to delete unsolicited mails, which I don't normally need to do in my "business" account because the spam is minimal. | | | Ty Kendall United Kingdom Local time: 22:48 Hebrew to English Most Interesting > Least Interesting | Mar 11, 2012 |
This pecking order usually means: 1. Emails from clients (potential or current). 2. Personal emails (friends, colleagues, etc). 3. Emails from translator lists. (these range from fascinating to snooze-inducing). 4. Spam. ....but they all get dealt with eventually and quickly enough for it not to really matter which order I access them. If there's an email from one of those "first come first served type clients" and I miss that because I've... See more This pecking order usually means: 1. Emails from clients (potential or current). 2. Personal emails (friends, colleagues, etc). 3. Emails from translator lists. (these range from fascinating to snooze-inducing). 4. Spam. ....but they all get dealt with eventually and quickly enough for it not to really matter which order I access them. If there's an email from one of those "first come first served type clients" and I miss that because I've been too busy with other stuff, then I hardly see that as a great loss. ▲ Collapse | | | Isabelle F. BRUCHER (X) Belgium Local time: 23:48 English to French + ... Inbox management | Mar 11, 2012 |
The question is not whether the clients are current or potential, the question is whether the assignment is urgent or not, i.e. if it's about a quote that I have sent for an urgent assignment (potential client) or about an ongoing assignment which is urgent (current client), I read it first. Of course, if my mother is about to die and I am waiting for news, I read it first... It all depends what kind of personal news it is... And, in general, I try to have as few e-mail... See more The question is not whether the clients are current or potential, the question is whether the assignment is urgent or not, i.e. if it's about a quote that I have sent for an urgent assignment (potential client) or about an ongoing assignment which is urgent (current client), I read it first. Of course, if my mother is about to die and I am waiting for news, I read it first... It all depends what kind of personal news it is... And, in general, I try to have as few e-mails in my Inbox as possible, so as not to miss important messages, which might otherwise be drowned in the middle of new Kudoz notifications (for the moment, I often disable the notification process or deviate the notifications towards a special Kudoz folder if I am in the middle of an urgent assignment), Kudoz comments, jobs offered through the quoting process (I delete or file them as soon as treated/read). By the way, in the job quoting system, too bad there is no filter for translations into Canadian French. Indeed I am Belgian and my Inbox is invaded by those notifications. A difference should be made at least between Canadian French and "European French" (i.e. a Belgian is able to write in French for France, of course, but Canadian French is another matter for a European) - just a suggestion for job notification filtering - who agrees? My Inbox is for messages I haven't dealt with yet. The rest gets mercilessly filed or deleted. So the choosing process (subject of this poll) is very short indeed... ▲ Collapse | |
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Patricia Charnet United Kingdom Local time: 22:48 Member (2009) English to French
current clients then potential clients then friends - from urgent to non-urgent | | | The ones I feel most like dealing with | Mar 11, 2012 |
My reaction seems to be similar to Ty's. If I'm waiting for a reply to an enquiry/query, then that will get opened first, and then I can be quite capricious and most unbusinesslike. | | | Interlangue (X) Angola Local time: 23:48 English to French + ...
Professional mail on my most used professional Webmail, latest on my private/less professional Webmail, ads/spam when I have nothing better to do on the address that serves that purpose 3 Webmail addresses are open on my desk whenever I am at it, so there isn't much I do not take care of before the end of the day. Others (also Webmail version), I open when the rest has been taken care of... See more Professional mail on my most used professional Webmail, latest on my private/less professional Webmail, ads/spam when I have nothing better to do on the address that serves that purpose 3 Webmail addresses are open on my desk whenever I am at it, so there isn't much I do not take care of before the end of the day. Others (also Webmail version), I open when the rest has been taken care of ▲ Collapse | | | keshab Local time: 03:18 Member (2006) English to Bengali + ... SITE LOCALIZER
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