This month, OtherInbox Organizer surpassed 1 million signups! All month long, we have been celebrating and sharing some of the things we have learned about people and email.

This is your last chance to enter to win an iPad 2!

Next week, we’ll select a winner and announce the results of the poll!

So tell us, what kind of email user are you? Take the quick survey for a chance to win something sweet to read your emails on… an iPad 2!

Good Luck!

We have compiled a few ideas about our users’ IQ or Inbox Quotient! It’s not a number and it’s not scientific but it is an interesting way to think about your email habits and how you might improve them.. with Organizer! =)

See below to see if you have any of the Hoarder characteristics. Then enter our 1 Million Signups iPad 2 giveaway, running all through the month of June!

How many emails are in your inbox? How old is the oldest one? While aimlessly moving an email from one folder to another, have you ever thought to yourself?

“I just know I am going to need this email someday!”

Oops! You might be a Hoarder!

Talk about email overload! Newsletters, receipts, even past delivery notices… Hoarders just KNOW they are going to need some information in their email so they are unable to delete or archive anything and end up with a huge amount of mail in their inboxes.

The thing is, WE don’t think it’s a problem!

At least, not with Organizer! Organizer helps make sense of the melee, placing things right where they need to be. It’s the email you want, when you need it!

Our Organizer is perfect for a hoarder since it automatically organizes incoming marketing messages. Think of Organizer as a curator of sorts–Placing things in nice little folders for you and giving you a daily inventory via the Daily Digest!

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So if you’re a Hoarder, stand up tall and don’t let people bring you down. It’s your email, do what you want with it! We can help you reduce the clutter and keep your emails from real people in a cozy little spot, your inbox!

So what is the oldest email you have? What kind of Hoarding tales have you got? Chime in on Twitter or Facebook! Play along and you’ll be automatically entered to win an iPad 2! Good luck.

OtherInbox has been helping people manage their email in one way or another since 2008. Our flagship product, Organizer has really resonated with email users all over the web. In fact, we are happy to announce that sometime in the next couple of weeks we will surpass our 1 MILLIONTH sign-up! That’s right, OtherInbox Organizer has nearly a million subscribers!

We’ve organized countless emails, helping our users keep their inboxes in tip top shape with our automatic organization, Daily Digest and the super simple Unsubscribe Folder!

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

With nearly ONE MILLION USERS later, we have learned a couple of things…

1- Spam is not a huge issue. Bacn is!

Email and internet service providers have really cracked down on spam. Take a look at your spam folder and you’ll see just how good webmail has gotten at catching your salty, spicy ham flavored emails! So that leaves bacn. Bacn is all those things you willingly sign up for (but don’t have time to read) and is the real problem most people have in their inbox!

2- We’ve learned simplicity is key.

Make things easy for someone and they respond. Organizer is super easy to use, that’s why people like it. Someone called our 1-step Unsubscribe Folder the greatest thing since the addition of the RFC 2369 header!

Nerd alert!- RFC 2369 is the header in an email that allows a recipient to unsubscribe from an email list.

3- People’s inboxes are unique.

Some people hold onto everything, some are at Inbox Zero or close. Some peeps sign up for everything and read everything, others sign up for everything and read nothing and still others are so meticulous about who they sign up for, that their email inbox is like a dietitian’s refrigerator; nothing but leafy green archives and turkey everything.

WHATS YOUR IQ?

So, based on what we’ve seen, we think our users fall into one of four types of email personas. The Hoarder, the Pro, the Shopper and the Socialite. Now, everyone uses their email for personal messaging and some peeps are more than one type of profile but some habits are hard to ignore. Habits such as…

• How soon they delete or archive email…. if ever!
• Whether they use labels, filters or folders.
• How many different senders they subscribe to.

These characteristics and more can make up what we call your INBOX QUOTIENT or simply, IQ.

It’s not a number and it’s not scientific but it is an interesting way to think about your email habits and how you might improve them. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll look at what makes a Pro tick, why Hoarders may not ever get rid of an old email, what do Shoppers really want and finally, explore a Socialite’s obsession with how many twitter followers they might have!

We are very excited to be on the verge of one million users! Not many technology startups can do that and we are leading the pack in the online email application space. If you are among the more than 950,000 Organizer users, thanks! If not, please try Organizer and divide and conquer your inbox!

Keep an eye on Twitter and Facebook in the next couple of weeks! Sharing YOUR IQ just might win you something sweet to read your emails on!

First off, the ATX Startup Crawl on Thursday, March 10th then Ignite SXSW on Friday, March 11th.

But two back to back events were not enough for us to be involved in though!

Our own Joshua Baer also had a solo panel on Saturday, the 12th. Joshua’s “5 Secrets to a Killer Elevator Speech” was, again, a huge hit.

Finally, later in the week, Joshua goes on to win the 2011 Das Iron Geek Award!? Believe it, we completely crushed it during SX!

THE ATX STARTUP CRAWL

We hit the ground running with the ATX Startup Crawl on Thursday the 10th, the day before SXSW actually started. With the Startup Crawl, we participated in a technology open house of sorts where ourselves and more than twenty other local Austin Technology Startups opened our office doors and invited folks in to have a beer, talk to recruiters and just get to know us.

Overall, Startup Crawl was all about selling Austin Technology to both locals and the people coming to SXSW. Working as a cohesive community, we were able to present a really strong presence for all of us by opening up our own creative spaces and smartly utilizing our existing resources.

Startup Crawl was a blast and even garnered some national and international press mentions and backlinks.

The very next night OtherInbox was proud to be a major sponsor of Ignite SXSW, an official SXSW event. We paired with Dorkbot and put on an amazing show that included both the Ignite format mini-presentations from such speakers as Guy Kawasaki and Bob Metcalfe PLUS the maker faire type science displays of Dorkbot!

We brought the brains, they brought the bots and we ended it with a great performance by Arc Attack’s singing Tesla Coils!

FIVE SECRETS TO A KILLER ELEVATOR PITCH

The very next day, our dude Joshua Baer took a packed house at SXSW Interactive, walked them through his 5 secrets of a killer elevator pitch and then had them come up and take a turn. The response was pretty great!

Here’s the deck from Joshua’s presentation. Elevate your elevator pitch to “killer!”

5 Secrets to a Killer Elevator Pitch – SXSW 2011

See more examples at http://killerelevator.com

Das Iron Geek

On paper, the 2nd annual Das Iron Geek competition might look like an aborted scene from an aborted “Revenge of the Nerds” sequel but it is actually a series of fun and geeky challenges by keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard to find and crown the “geekiest influencer at SXSW.”

Well, wouldn’t you know it, the geekiest influencer is our very own Joshua Baer! The above “Office” inspired trophy can now be found in our office and is a source of great pride to us all! I am unable to disclose the horrible things my boss had to do to be crowned with such a geektastic honor, so instead I will direct you to this amazing video.

Note- It is long but pretty awesome.

Check out J. Baer’s touching acceptance speech at the 08:38 mark!

The aftermath of our SXSW Interactive 2011? A bunch of business cards, a natural aversion to free beer and BBQ, a slight suntan, a pair of bulked up calves from biking around town and a huge appreciation for our hometown, Austin Texas. Were you here? Tell us about it!

Twitter – Facebook- Email – We are so connected it hurts!

In January 2010, About.com readers nominated their favorite email innovation of 2009 for The Reader's Choice Awards 2010. We made it through the nomination process last month (yay!) and now the final voting process is open! Express your excitement and support by voting for OtherInbox as your favorite email innovation of 2009.

Voting will be open from February 1 to February 24, 2010.

All you do is select OtherInbox and click Submit. That's it! Don't believe me? Here's a screenshot of the easy process:

Vote for OtherInbox as Best Email Innovation 2009!

Calling all OtherInbox users! It's that time of year again, the 2nd annual Shorty Awards nominations are NOW OPEN!

OtherInbox would like to give a shout out to our top 10 active users.  We based this list off number of emails organized and who checked their emails in the last 14 days.  We would like to thank everyone on this list for their support.  If you are on this list and would like me to link your name to your twitter account or blog, please email the link to top10@peeps.oib.com!

1. Brandon Hubbard
2. Thomas Terry
3. Ganesh Ram Jayaraman
4. Mister Dondi
5. Luthiano Vasconcelos
6. Earl Wallace
7. Justine Lam
8. Yoshiro Moriyama
9.  Mansi Bhatia
10. Jack Humphrey

Please take a moment to click the icon below and vote for us. You can vote once a day. Voting ends on April 30th!