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Your inbox is making you sick,

and Inbox Detox is the cure.

 

Announcing

 the release of:

Inbox Detox - And the Habit of E-mail Excellence

by Marsha Egan

Order yours today. Detoxify your Inbox tomorrow!


Our newly released book, Inbox Detox - And the Habit of E-mail Excellence (Acanthus Publishing) is 180 pages of helping you change your emailing HABITS. 

 

180 pages of ways to detoxify your draining email habits, and take control of your life. Available on Amazon (5 stars!)  or here.

 

Buy one or many! Group discounts are available...

 

Detoxify your whole department!

Volume discounts:

  • 6-25 books, 15% credit

  • 26-50, 25% credit

  • 50+, 35% credit

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WHAT'S IN THIS BOOK:

  • How much e-mail mismanagement is costing you

  • Two e-mail handling assessments

  • The internationally acclaimed "12 Steps to Curing Your E-mail Eddiction"

  • Twenty "Toxic E-mailer Alert" Profiles - do you know Midnight Manny?

  • Best practices for e-mail efficiency, eco-friendliness, and etiquette

  • Habit changing practices and tips

EXCERPT: While companies are losing worker productivity, employees are extending the length of their workdays, going to the office on weekends, and checking their e-mail while on vacation because they can no longer manage the volume of communication that requires their attention. This is how e-mail habits have become toxic to individuals and businesses alike.

 

"What’s most unique and valuable about this book is that Marsha has developed a process for managing your email. Follow her steps and two things will happen: You will be more productive and have less stress."  

David Markovitz,President,

GMP Training Systems, Inc. http://TeddySpeaks.com

 

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"After reading your book, I immediately became more aware of the length of my e-mail messages to others as well as who I sent copies of the e-mail to.  Your book is an excellent guide for the sole entrepreneur, as well as a corporation with thousands of employees.  The advice you offer is bound to save people time and focus their attention on tasks of higher priority. Thank you!" 

Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D.
President, Universal Design Living Laboratory
  http://www.UDLL.com

EXCERPT:

TOXIC E-MAILER ALERT! VERBOSE VELMA

Verbose Velma’s e-mails run on and on and on and on and on and on...

 Velma’s Antidote:  Shorten the message, Velma!  Her rule of thumb should be that if it will take longer to type your e-mail than to pick up the phone or visit the person and simply relay the message through conversation, don’t waste time creating the e-mail message. Rather, call or visit, explain the situation, and if a record is needed, summarize it later by e-mail. That summary e-mail will be shorter than the originally intended one. In the long run, it will take Velma less time, and bring her better results.

In the book, you'll meet some other "Toxic E-mailers:"

CHATROOM CHUCK, COPY-HAPPY HARRY, MIDNIGHT MANNY, URGENT URSULA

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MORE ABOUT THE BOOK, AND WHY YOU NEED IT...

 

Workplace interruptions cost the U.S. economy $900 billion per year (according to research by information-technology research firm Basex[1]) – that’s not a number any company wants to see during a recession. The study found email to be the third largest culprit when it comes to workplace interruptions. Basex indicates that employees spent a total of just 11 minutes on a project before being distracted by an incoming email, and that it took them an average of 25 minutes to get back to that particular task. In a time when layoffs and cutbacks are becoming the norm, companies cannot afford to keep losing productivity if they want to survive.

 

The solution is for companies to work toward creating productive workplace habits. Email misuse is a habit – a bad one – and it’s imperative to recognize it as such. And, like any other habit, you can learn how to break it. Developing new, productive email habits can save your company hundreds of thousands of dollars – and yourself a great deal of time and energy, according to internationally recognized productivity expert, author, and coach Marsha Egan. She tackles the process of taking control of your inbox in her new book, Inbox Detox and the Habit of E-mail Excellence (Acanthus Publishing, 2009).

 

Books on how to increase your workplace productivity are a dime a dozen, but none of them deal with email mismanagement as a HABIT that can be broken. Inbox Detox goes deeper, highlighting the point that email misuse is a bad habit that can only be fixed by undergoing a series of steps to establish a pattern of good email behavior. The book provides readers with practical, hands-on solutions for how readers can tame their inboxes, showing them how to regain real, measurable productive time – fast.

 

In Inbox Detox, Egan walks readers through first recognizing that unproductive email habits, while easy to spot, can be challenging to change. The key to the process is for them to recognize the habits that are sapping their productivity and rework their approach to technology, starting with identifying the problem. The book includes diagnostic quizzes that allow the reader to gauge how well they deal with both incoming and outgoing email and then offers a 12-step solution for how to “cure” the habit. The second part of the book outlines the healthy email practices the reader should aim for, from green email habits to career-enhancing etiquette. Egan has also included the humorous Toxic E-mailer Alerts!, featuring characters we may recognize in our everyday interactions – or even within ourselves.

 

“It’s so easy to become a slave to your inbox,” says Egan. “While the solutions may not be rocket science, this book provides a process to take control of your inbox and your life – just one month of focus can bring huge returns.”


[1] http://www.basex.com/press.nsf/0/E53F4C6142D119A6852570F9001AB0EC?OpenDocument

 

An easy read, packed with great info!

Mary Marshall Palmer

Founder, Design From Your Soul

 

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 "You will read the following in the Preface of this most helpful book; “Inbox Detox is your guide to learning the absolutely most efficient ways of handling your e-mail, then changing your habits so that they become engrained and second nature to you. It takes time and focus to change habits, and that habit-shift leads to maintaining an empty inbox, every time you open it.”  I can assure you that this is not a sales pitch:  It’s 110% accurate! The only thing I’d change about this book might be the title. I might have called it Veni, Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered), because in my case, I came to the conclusion a while back that I needed help with my email problem, I saw the light provided by Marsha in her book, and with her help, I conquered my inbox, forever, and got my life back in the process. Thank you “Marsha Caesar”!"

Daniel Saint Jean, CEO, BizzBoosters


More Inbox Detox Resources

Book  eBook  MP3  Digital Package

 

Book

INBOX DETOX

And the Habit of E-Mail Excellence

(Acanthus Publishing, 2009)    180 pages, Soft bound

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eBook

INBOX DETOX

And the Habit of E-Mail Excellence

(Acanthus Publishing, 2009) 180 pages, Digital version 

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About the eBook.

 

            It will show you how to clean up, manage, and make your inbox a thoroughly productive business tool. And of course, the more productive you are, the better job you’ll do. Assuming you’re not totally altruistic, this could lead to better performance reviews, more money, the appreciation of your boss, and the envy of your fellow workers. Could anything be better than that?

Yes, the price: It’s only $19.95, same as the book. The only difference is... you'll have it in the next few minutes, instead of the next few days!

PS. It's the same as the book, just the digital version. Didn't we just say that?

 

About the MP3.

  

            This very informative and interesting audio will detail how you can manage your inbox, and take 100% control of what now is probably a big mess (don’t worry, you’re not the only one with this problem). Then you’ll learn how and when to work, sort, save, and delete e-mail.

 

           Now you’re probably thinking that you already know how to do this. Wrong! 95% of your business e-mail isn’t worth the mouse click to open it. Problem is, you spend a lot of unproductive time (over an hour a day,) doing just that. Marsha Egan will show you how to manage the beast that lurks within that innocent looking inbox.

 

           And would you believe the price? Only $29.95.

 

Order now. Only $40 for both! (a $49.90 value)

 

Marsha Egan’s combo e-book and MP3 will grab your inbox, shake it up, and make it respectable enough to mingle in polite society. Or at the very least, she’ll show you how to shape it up and make it manageable. And the best part is, you’ll learn how to do it in 12 steps, which are both easy and fun – Marsha decided to throw “fun” in as part of the package. Nice, since she probably could have gotten big bucks for it.

 

We’ll download your order immediately. And for the really great price of only $40, how can you afford not to? You probably spent that much on Aunt Ester’s birthday present – and did she improve you productivity, make you the darling of your office, or get you a raise and promotion? Nope.

 

            $40 – this is a deal you can’t possibly pass up!

Order now!

Only $40 for both digital resources

More about your "Inbox Detox" digital package

         This digital combo will help you master the perennially clean inbox.  By outlining the proven 12 steps, and strategy for KEEPING that inbox empty in both the written and spoken word, you’ll take control of your inbox, have less stress, and get more done.

        Each step builds upon the other, from acknowledging your "e-ddiction," to steps that will give you the right perspectives to "let your e-mail go!" to great strategies for managing that e-mail so that you can reclaim your life.

        This eBook / audio combination series focuses on the inbox best practices. Read it, then listen.  You'll engrain the tools you need.  Starting with managing the inbox, then moving to managing yourself, this series will help you take control of your inbox, your priorities, and most importantly YOU!

       There's a trick to managing your inbox.  It starts with you taking the challenge to change habits, then take ownership of your e-mail.  This is followed by steps that teach e-mailers how and when to work, sort, save and delete e-mails.  Key to this audio is differentiating between “working and “sorting” e-mail which reclaims focus the "right" priorities.

 

What are you waiting for?

Order now!

You'll receive both the eBook and MP3

as soon as your credit card clears

Only $40 for both


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