Spring Cleaning Email in August

My oldest email account goes back to the last century, and sometimes it's tough giving up an old friend. The address gets so much spam that I don't use it and so it gets checked infrequently. I recommend small business owners check their email more often. Imagine the surprise with the following load of email since the last time I did Spring Cleaning when it really was Spring.



You have 1,842 unread messages with 155 in the inbox and 1,687 in the bulk folder. Those took 5-10 minutes to delete, and in the end my previously saved email was down to 5. One is a resource that my readers may enjoy. In February I recommended people take a typing course. From the 5 emails I had saved, here's a typing related message with a link to an online typing test that may be a resource worth a moment of your time.

TYPINGTEST.COM TEST RESULTS

Jim Degerstrom,

You have today completed TypingMaster's On-line
Typing Test with the following results:

Test Time: 1 min.
Typing Speed: 70 WPM
Accuracy: 100 %

NET SPEED: 70 WPM

Looking back at my last year in high school, the choice to take typing proved valuable for my career 20 years later hand coding XHTML for websites. Today's lesson is keep an eye on dormant email accounts, plus another reminder that it's never too late to learn how to type. Writing web content, advice articles, press releases, and everyday correspondence is much more efficient even at 35-40 words per minute if you've never learned touch typing before.



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