The dropdown will allow you to actually click the “settings” option near the bottom.įrom here on out, it’s cake. From personal experience, I would say that this is the norm.
Gmail makes the process a lot more user-friendly than Outlook. It's a lot more complicated than the process for Gmail. Part Two: Setting Up an Automatic Email Reply on Gmail Hit “delete” at the top and congrats: you’re back at work. When you’re back from vacation, find yourself back to the “rules & alerts” menu. Guess what? You’re finally done! But wait… I never filled out a date range? How will Outlook know when to stop? Hit “next >” at the bottom to proceed to the last level!
It will bring you to a new question, “Are there any exceptions?” Outlook wants to know if there are certain types of emails you don’t want to automatically reply to.Ĭlick on whichever boxes you want to. Once that done, the file name of your template should appear.Ĭlick the “open” button and you will be brought back to the previous screen. Hit the dropdown button at the top and select “user templates in file system.” You don’t want to “look in” standard templates. You need to click on the link in the box for step 2. You want to reply using a specific template, the one you wrote earlier. It’s a new pop-up! Outlook wants to know what you want to do with this message. You don’t have to do anything here for a simple “out of office email.” If you want to be specific about who gets the reply, you can see there are a number of options available to you. A new pop-up will introduce itself, one for conditions. Click on “apply rule on messages I receive.” I promise you, this doesn’t link to anything related to Bill Maher. Click “info” on the sidebar.Ĭlick on the box at the bottom, the one for “Manage Rules & Alerts.” When you save the message, make sure you’re saving it as an outlook template. Make your message short and sweet.ĭon’t hit send you haven’t addressed anyone anyway. More appropriately, brevity is the soul of an A.D.D. I’ve always believed that the shorter you can make your outreach, the better. That practice is annoying enough on the phone: it’s even more annoying in email.Īs for the actual message? No need to overcomplicate it. We all have that friend who tries to trick us on voicemail, the friend that starts her/his outgoing message with a casual, “Hey, what’s up?” It takes about three seconds before you realize that you’re chatting with voicemail. I would suggest that your subject line should get to the point. Now it’s time to actually write your email, subject line and all. Of course even though Outlook has more power that comes with it, it's not always the most intuitive email platform. Link building is typically easier with a domain email, and if you have a domain email, there's a good chance you're using a service like Outlook. Part One: Setting Up an Automatic Email Reply on Outlook
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Learn how to build the kind of links that deserve your professional auto-reply in our free link building ebook: This post will explain how to set up automated responses on both Outlook and Gmail. And by the way, if you’re working during your vacation:
Nevertheless, it’s in my opinion that it’s simply polite to alert people trying to contact you that you don’t plan on working during your vacation. Some people like Disneyland: I like music festivals that sell one beer for more than the cost of a 12-pack. I myself try to take a week off every summer. Of course, vacations happen outside of the holiday season. In turn, that means tis the season when link building becomes most difficult. With the end of the year comes a plethora of holidays of course. This post will include steps on how to set up automatic “out of office” emails in Gmail and Outlook. Welcome to our last Tutorial Tuesday of 2014! Over the course of the year, we’ve covered a lot, everything from link prospecting through blog comments to building keyword lists.īecause it is the end of the year, this week I’ll be explaining how to prepare professionally for the holidays.
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