Tuesday 21 July 2009

Using Mobile Email Effectively

By Greg Black

Mobile email solutions have created an environment in which the ability to communicate with friends and relatives or customers and teammates does not have to be locked down to a single computer or even a single location. These days you can take your personal or business email with you no matter where you go. But just because you have it with you, are you sure you're using mobile email effectively?

There are a wide range of options and solutions that an email hosting company can offer a customer to access email. Traditionally, emails are accessed through a computer application or through a web browser. Now days, there are several options available for receiving emails with mobile email being one of those options. A mobile email user can do just about everything a user sitting at a computer can do. You can read, write, edit and delete emails from your mobile device. Mobile devices offer users more options to stay connected no matter where they go.

Some email hosting providers offer new solutions and benefits to mobile email users to make things even more convenient, but you must be aware of these options and have the phone properly set up to take advantage of them. For example, some providers offer a "new mail" alert that they will send to a user whenever a new message arrives. However, if your phone or other device is not set up to accept these alerts, you will not be able to take advantage of this particular convenience.

Handheld devices can do so much more than just accept mobile email. You can easily set it up to sync to your computer and take advantage of other features that come with your mobile email solution. Some of these include shared messages, shared calendars, and business contacts lists.

Part of having a mobile email service and using it properly is knowing when to quit. Just because you have a handheld and take your email everywhere doesn't mean that you should be viewing and sending messages. It is vital to determine what are the real problems and what can wait until you get back into the office. Knowing what is important and what can wait can really give you peace and remove the burden that you carry by running a business or a division of a business. I mean, sometimes you just need to escape from the office and put your worries aside.

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