With Halloween and Election Day behind us, many of us are doing a mad dash to gather Christmas wish lists and get our shopping done on time. Somewhere between running kids to soccer games and birthday parties and the Thanksgiving count down, I'm hoping to find an extra hour. That leaves little time to sort through the avalanche of email to find retailers' best shopping discounts,...

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[ Cross-posted from Storify ] Email isn't dead, it's just broken. If you're feeling as overwhelmed as I am, here are some tips I uncovered on my quest to dig out from the avalanche. “Could this be the end of email overload?” Conan O’Brien may have pokedfun at the flood of media coverage around this question, but for most of us, the constant barrage of emails isn't that funny. Media...

Read More About Are You on Email High Alert?

Ever sift through your personal email inbox and come across a great sale at Target, a sizzling handbag on Gilt.com or an unbeatable Click 'N Save deal from Southwest Airlines that you want to share? As creatures of habit, the natural thing to do is to hit the forward button - a pretty "old school" move in this age of social media. Much to the dismay of marketers, most of these email messages...

Read More About Your inbox as a waypoint (Road to DEMO)

Product is ready. Script is locked down. The stage is set for the wildest six minutes in ZigMail's history! The ZigMail team arrived in the SF Bay Area this weekend raring to go for the DEMO Spring 2012 conference in Santa Clara. Everyone's texting, calling, Facebooking and emailing to see what we're up to, but you'll just have to hang on and keep your eyes and ears peeled this Wednesday...

Read More About 99 down 1 to go (Road to DEMO)

Turns out entrepreneurs have a lot in common with the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. One of the most valuable lessons our co-founders have learned is that they're evangelists 24/7 and they always need to be prepared to tell ZigMail's story. This was the case with our meetings and networking this week with the selection committee for DEMO Spring 2012 . Anyone looking for the next big...

Read More About Dutch Goose (Road to DEMO)

There’s been a flurry of recent articles on the email overload problem and the strategies companies are taking to thwart it. We can all relate to that anxious feeling of picking up our iPhone, Android tablet, or firing up email on our laptop and thinking – gulp – “How many messages am I behind now.” Like clockwork, my personal inbox comes with just as many unread messages as yesterday. So much...

Read More About Drowning in email?

As I prepare for the holidays, an article about holiday email overload caught my eye. Dave Johnson at CBS MoneyWatch recommends four steps to guard against holiday email overload at work. It got me thinking about how those same rules might translate to the glut of email I get in my personal email accounts – my lifeline not only to family and friends, but all my transactional...

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