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Five ways to organise your email

by Emma Cossey Admin | Jan 8, 2014 | Freelance Challenges

Confession time. My inbox at the moment is a mess. In fact, when a friend saw that I had 7664 unread emails in my inboxes (across four different email accounts), she let out a loud gasp. It’s not quite as bad as it seems, as many of them are press releases and...

The Freelance Weekly Challenge: Delete, unsubscribe, sort (your emails)

by Emma Cossey Admin | Dec 10, 2012 | Freelance Challenges

How much of your day do you spend dealing with emails? If you’re anything like me, you spend far too much of it reading and deleting – particularly the latter. Some of it isn’t controllable – as a blogger and journalist, 50% of my emails are...

The Freelance Weekly Challenge: Take a tech break

by Emma Cossey Admin | Sep 24, 2012 | Freelance Challenges, Freelance General

This week’s Weekly Freelance Challenge is an easy one. In theory. This week, I want you to schedule in some tech-free time. Whether it be an evening, a day or a whole weekend. Personally, I think one of the hardest things about freelancing is switching off from...