Are you tired of seeing unwanted emails in your inbox, even though you've unsubscribed multiple times in the past?
Maybe you're tired of seeing the same cold sales emails in your inbox, and it's wasting your time as you're trying to manage your email.
Well, in today's video, I want to show you a super cool way to send those messages into deep space so you will never see them ever again.
Hello everyone, Scott Friesen here at Simpletivity, helping you to get more done and enjoy less stress.
And I imagine you have probably subscribed to a number of newsletters over the course of the years.
Why Unsubscribe
And some of them are perhaps not as much value to you anymore as they once were. And you probably spent the effort scrolling down to the bottom of a message
and finding that Unsubscribe button. Perhaps you unsubscribed more than once.
You've come down, and you've found this link, and you've hit it, and then a week later
you still are getting messages or you're still getting offers from a particular sender.
When to Unsubscribe
Well, I often recommend that you go through that effort at least once, or maybe I should say, just once to unsubscribe. Now, anyone who is sending you information
Should respect that. I know different countries have different regulations. And should we just say the general rules of the internet should dictate that, hey, if you opt out,
You should not hear from those individuals ever again. Unfortunately, not everyone plays by the rules. And in fact, sometimes just this very act of hitting Unsubscribe sends that sender a signal saying, "Oh, a human being just hit that Unsubscribe button. "At least we know that that is a real email address. "There's a real person on the other end "of that email address." And therefore you might continue to receive information from them.
Cold Sales Emails
But there's a second scenario that you're probably familiar with as well.
And that is a cold sales email where someone reaches out to you, and you have no idea who they are.
And it's pretty obvious, perhaps by their messaging, that they have no idea who you are and what you do.
And you continue to see these, you continue to come across them, and they really weigh down on your email management efforts, right?
You only have a limited amount of time each day to deal with your email.
You don't wanna waste your time having to go through all of these messages that have nothing to do with you.
And you don't want to hear from these individuals again in the future.
Sane Black Hole
Well, that's where something which is called SaneBlackHole comes into place.
Now, SaneBlackHole is a special folder or label, as we see here within Gmail, that is a part of the SaneBox application.
Now, the great thing about SaneBox is that it's actually more than an extension or just a third-party app.
SaneBox is something that works with every single email client.
You actually don't need to install anything special.
And the great thing is, is that it works across your devices.
So, all you have to do is drag certain emails, particular emails, into the correct folder, or use the features that make the most sense to you.
So let's take a look at an example here.
Let's say that I no longer want to hear from Bed Bath & Beyond.
And no, I'm not knocking them. I'm just using them as the example here.
And maybe I have hit Unsubscribe, and I keep getting these messages.
All I need to do is drag this into my SaneBlackHole folder.
And of course it's gonna be removed from my inbox, but it gets better than that.
Now it appears in my SaneBlackHole folder.
However, it's only going to remain here for about seven days.
In case I made a mistake, I can always come back here and find it within that seven-day period.
However, at the end of those seven days, this message is automatically going to be sent to my trashcan.
Now, here within Gmail, when you send something to trash or something appears in trash, it's gonna remain there for an additional 30 days.
So, you really have plenty of time in case you need to go back and search for something in the event that you made a mistake or you want to go and review something.
But BlackHole is going to do this automatically for you.
So you don't need to come back in here and clean this out from time to time.
After about seven days, it's automatically going to send it to the trash, and you will never ever hear from this sender again.
Let's pick another one here as an example.
Let's say that this is, for this example, a cold sales call.
And maybe this individual has been reaching out to me every two weeks for the last six months.
And I've told them to stop emailing me.
But you know, it's probably some automated system.
All I need to do is drag it to my SaneBlackHole.
And one of the great things when it comes to these cold sales calls is that, of course, they don't have an Unsubscribe button.
They don't even have that option in there.
So again, it's gonna appear here in this folder, and then it's going to send it to my trash.
So if you are sick of getting the same email messages from people, either that you don't know, or from organizations or from newsletters that you have already tried to unsubscribe in the past, and they're not respecting your wishes, you may wanna check out SaneBlackHole.
Now, if you wanna receive a special offer, if you want to try SaneBox absolutely for free and receive a $25 credit, all you need to do is go to sanebox.com/simpletivity, something special for all of my Simpletivity subscribers.
Thank you so much for watching today's video.
And remember, being productive does not need to be difficult.
In fact, it's very simple.
