For most marketers around the world, Gmail is the communication hub for their business. Gmail tips can help them out.
From email marketing, reaching out to editors, connecting with customers to communicating with vendors - it can all be done from your all-powerful Gmail account.
Google and a lot of third-party developers have been stacking Gmail with features, tricks, and add-ons that will make any marketer drool. It is now time to uncover and implement them and supercharge your productivity.
Let’s start with an AI-powered feature that Google rolled out last year. ‘Smart Compose’ helps you write emails faster. It is like having your own ghostwriter. It guesses what you're going to type before you even type it. Now, that's really cool.
By default, Smart Compose is automatically turned on in your Gmail. Otherwise, follow the below steps to turn it on.
You will see suggestions given to you as you type your email in the form of a grey-colored text. To accept a suggestion, click on the Tab key on your keyboard. On a smartphone, you need to swipe right to accept the suggestion.
Our next Gmail tips list is to use Undo Send. Have you ever sent an email to a Mrs. Jackson, only to address it to a Mr. Jackson by mistake? Or have you ever emailed somebody really important, only to realize seconds later that you accidentally typed hart instead of heart in your email? Mistakes like these are very much possible.
For such cases, the Undo Send feature can be your savior.
If you signed up for newsletters or blogs or any other services, chances are that your inbox will be clogged with all kinds of emails. Thanks to labels and filters, you can easily label your emails to get the clutter out of the way and filter them according to your needs.
Gmail will now automatically move all the emails based on the above criteria to the label you selected. And they won’t appear in your inbox.
Sometimes, your potential customer says they’re too busy to read your pitch right now but asks that you send it again the following week. Write that email now, before you forget, and schedule it using this amazing tool called Boomerang.
Or maybe you don’t have time to deal with a boatload of emails from a certain client but you are concerned that you may forget about them after a while. Boomerang can deal with these little nuisances and schedule them at the right time for you.
Canned responses can be very handy if you regularly get the same questions or comments via email. If you find yourself using the same email response over and over again, it’s probably best to set up a canned response for faster replies.
With this, you will no longer have to answer the same question for the hundredth time.
Your new response is now available for use. Whenever you need to reply with that response, go to the canned responses section as mentioned above and select that response.
Creative writing ability is a hallmark of a great marketer. And Grammarly makes it possible for you to write down those high-quality emails.
When you activate Grammarly, it automatically checks every email for writing issues - spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, clarity, comma placement, and more. Resolve those mistakes and you're on your way to making a great first impression.
Our last Gmail tip is add-ons. This is a bonus for extra productivity. You can add plugins to your inbox using the add-ons that Gmail provides.
How to access Gmail add-ons? Click the Get add-ons from the gear button.
The add-ons offer several integrations to your Gmail for a wide variety of tasks - even analytics, project management, email tracking, etc.
So there you go! You just leveled up your Gmail game. Also, I don't mind if you send me a short thank you below with that newly saved time of yours 😉
