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What are GMail Categories &
Tabbed Inbox,WhyYou Should
Care
a quick lesson presented by Lincoln Murphy
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GMail Tabbed Inbox
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GMail Categories
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Why you should care
★Your customers won’t see your Transactional Messages
★Your customers won’t get important messages from you
★Your Free Trial users won’t get your follow-up messages
★Your potential customers won’t see your marketing messages
★A fantastic and useful channel of communication with your customers could
be negatively affected
★This is affecting - right now - people who actually want to get emails from
vendors, marketers,.... and maybe even you.
★This is occuring without their explicit permission (or at least action)
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What Should YOU Do?
★All the regular things that ensure (help) email delivery.
★From the very beginning, start a conversation that will get them to respond
so that - regardless what they use for email, you have a relationship with them
★Don’t blast unwanted, ego-centric garbage that no-one wants; always add-
value!
★After every action where you’ve collected their email address, provide very
specific instructions on how to ensure your messages get to where they see
them
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Get Data-Driven...
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What Should YOU Do?
★Send a personal email to your users, one-by-one, so there’s no
autoresponder or bulk mail markers and get them to turn off the settings in
GMail
★Popup a message / video for everyone on next login that says “If you use
GMail...”
★Popup a message / video for anyone that has a GMail account
★Use your imagination...
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ThankYou!
Lincoln Murphy
SixteenVentures
lincoln@sixteenventures.com
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@lincolnmurphy