{"id":3974,"date":"2018-04-16T16:11:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/insights\/tech-tip-followup-cc\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:11:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:11:56","slug":"tech-tip-followup-cc","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/insights\/tech-tip-followup-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tip: FollowUp.cc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a technology AND tip I’m excited to share today that helps keep track of tasks, due-outs and follow-up items.<\/p>\n

It’s an email service appropriately called Followup.cc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I first heard of Followup.cc when I was listening to a Podcast by “Mailbox Zero” guru and author of “Less Doing<\/a>”, Ari Meisel.<\/p>\n

FollowUp.cc is an automated email reminder tool that is platform-independent. It is similar to Boomerang<\/a>. You can schedule emails to be sent at a specific time in the future and you can create email reminders right in your inbox.<\/p>\n

My email and calendar systems are my number one and number two most-used, most-efficient and most relied upon business tools I use.<\/p>\n

When an email comes in to me —and before I sort, delete or respond to the email— I often forward the email to my followup.cc account. The email then ‘comes back’ to me at the time I specified, when I can either work on the task, respond or when I wanted to be reminded of the subject of the email.<\/p>\n

For example. I get a new business email lead<\/a> and I am busy working on another project. I forward the email to 2hours@followup.cc. The email will come back to me in 2 hours and I can either ‘snooze’ the email by specifying another time duration when this email comes back to me again. <\/p>\n

The email will only be resent to my inbox as long as I tell it to via the ‘snooze’ or reschedule setting. <\/p>\n

So, the task stays in my email and serves as a constant reminder until I tell it to stop and\/or complete the task.<\/p>\n

One Followup.cc account will track up to 5 emails at a nominal yearly subscription.<\/p>\n

Logging into my account online, I can review the previously submitted followups. <\/p>\n

Often times when responding to a person via email, I’ll ‘bcc’ a time related @followup.cc so that I am reminded to check on email, subject, person, etc.<\/p>\n

If you don’t put the @followup.cc email in the bcc line but rather the cc line, all parties will receive the email again at the time you specified.<\/p>\n

I’ve inadvertently made that mistake on a few occasions! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a technology AND tip I’m excited to share today that helps keep track of tasks, due-outs and follow-up items. It’s an email service appropriately called Followup.cc. I first heard of Followup.cc when I was listening to a Podcast by “Mailbox Zero” guru and author of “Less Doing”, Ari Meisel. FollowUp.cc is an automated email […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3975,"menu_order":95,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","insights","type-insights","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insights"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/3974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}