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28 June

Sender Reviews – Update

We launched Sender Reviews a couple of weeks ago so that you could voice your opinions about the companies that send you email. We have been delighted with your feedback and of course your reviews like this one from Ben about Mint.com

MintUnusual Spending in X. I love getting these emails. Helps me make sure that no one else is spending my money, but also keep tabs on my own spending habits.

or this from Luke about Amazon.com

AmazonAs much as Amazon can be overbearing, they must have a very good success rate with these emails, because I catch myself clicking through way more than other advertisers, due to their “smart” suggestions…

But it hasn’t all been praise that you have dealt out, as you can see Keith is not impressed with eBay.

EbayLots of junk mail from them. Goes straight into the spam folder.





and Chuck thinks Overstock.com could do a better job.

Overstock

I do NOT like how their emails are “jam packed”. It makes me not want to open them. I would rather settle for a few deals than have as many as they send.”

But our first Sender Review winner of a $25 Amazon Gift Card is Ken Yagelski with some great reviews of the emails sent by American Airlines, Overstock.com, LinkedIn and Wells Fargo.

Wells FargoAccount alerts are usually welcome, but many of the marketing materials are repetitive and are generally ignored.



These reviews help your friends and family make the most of their email subscriptions, by highlighting the good and letting them avoid the bad.

Keep writing your reviews, and you too could win a $25 gift card.

01 June

Organizer users are loving multiple labels

Two weeks ago we were excited about introducing multiple OIB labels for Gmail Organizer users.

From the feedback we are getting, it seems you are loving it!

We got a lot of great tweets about this change and wanted to share some of them:






Thanks to everybody for reaching out to us with your feedback, keep it coming!

05 May

OtherInbox helps Supermoms

Carley may just look like any other Supermom with 2 kids and a dog on the outside, but she’s so much more than that. She’s also the Founder of MotherCraft, a resource that “empowers moms to find careers they love, get more done & simplify their lives”.

Among other services, such as private coaching, Carley also writes a blog where she provides useful “craft tips” in hopes to simplify the lives of overwhelmed moms. The newest tip? How to manage email overwhelm with OtherInbox.

Watch it here:

Thank you Carley for taking the time to make this awesome video. Go Mompreneurs!

19 June

How OIB helps me save time at work and save money on my vacation!

In addition
to keeping you organized and in control of your inbox again, OtherInbox
has many additional perks.  I wanted to share a few of the ways I use
OtherInbox to help me manage my work, hobbies, volunteer activities,
family, shopping, and even vacations.

How OIB helps me with my job

I’ve
had many superusers tell me that OIB has helped them with their
careers.  Several professionals, from hairdressers to leasing agents,
have reported ways that giving on the fly email addresses and having
organized mailboxes have made them more efficient and organized.  As
the Community Manager of OtherInbox, I use on the fly email addresses
to help me with networking, partnership activities, user feedback, and
volunteer organizations that we work with every quarter.  I give each
group their own email address, where they are all nicely organized and
easy to access in one place, my OtherInbox account. 

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My own personal encyclopedia of knowledge

I,
like many people, have a lot of things I wish I knew how to do.  Being
a full time employee of an awesome startup and a full time parent does
not give me a lot of extra time to take classes and lessons.  However,
in the last year I have managed to learn how to start my first garden,
enhance my cooking skills, and stay up to date on the newest social
media trends!  How did I find the time to do all that?  I signed up for
the latest newsletters, blogs, and social groups like Ning and had them
all go to my OtherInbox!  It’s like customizing your own virtual
newspaper and reading it when you want to without it EVER overwhelming
your primary inbox.

My pond

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Coupons and other money saving tips

We
all love a good bargain but not at the expense of giving out our email
address.  It is not worth overpopulating your inbox with spam and
risking it being sold to other companies.  My absolute favorite part of
having an OtherInbox is the ability to be fearless with my email
address.  I use an on the fly email to sign up for ANYTHING and
EVERYTHING I want.  It has become an obsession.  I sign up for all of
my favorite stores' newsletters, contests, and everything else I can. 
As a result, I get a ton of free stuff.  Free food, free books, and
coupons to all my favorite stores.  I still have not won anything, but
I check my OtherInbox daily to make sure.  It is kind of like playing
the internet lottery - for free!  Now, as you can imagine, I get
spammed all the time, but I don’t stress about it because I have the
power to keep spammers from ever emailing me again with just one
click.  I have also learned who leaks my email address out and will
never spend another dime in their stores or online with them.

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All this money saving has made me want a vacation

Although
I have not yet saved thousands with OtherInbox, I still use it to sign
up for travel sites and possible vacation destinations.  My OtherInbox
notifies me of flight deals, discount vacation packages, and much
more.  When it is time to pack up the family and head out of Dodge for
a week or two, I know just where to go to get the most bang for my buck!

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What do you do with your OtherInbox?

While
I hope some of this information was helpful, I am always amazed by the
creative ways other people use OIB to their advantage.  Share your
story with us, and email me at myoib[at]peeps.oib.com…oh look, I used it again ;) .

18 June

Follow us on Facebook for a chance to win free upgrades! (Please RT)

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We need your help growing our fan base on Facebook.  We have almost
3,000 followers on Twitter but only 372 followers on Facebook.  Now how
are we supposed to save the world from email overload with only 372
people following us on Facebook?!

As an incentive to follow
us, and to help us get other followers, we are going to be giving away
one free premium account per week to one of our Facebook friends!  We
will also have t-shirt giveways, contests, and much more!

If you
retweet this message, we will enter you in to win a free premium
upgrade.  If you already have a year of premium service, we will add an
additional year to your contract!

Thank you for helping us continue to grow.  We are ready to take on email overload around the world! Ready, set, RT!

Follow us on
Facebook!

10 June

Who uses OtherInbox the mostest?

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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!

Without further ado, here are the top 10:
  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

05 June

Organizer by OtherInbox now available with Yahoo! Mail apps!

We promised you would be the first to know when we had BIG news, and here it is! Yahoo! Mail has added apps, including an app by OtherInbox called Organizer. Please help us get the word out there, and sign up for Y!MailApps!

Mark Risher, Yahoo! Mail Product Manager demonstrates a few of the new applications:

OtherInbox demonstrates Organizer in action:


What is OtherInbox, and what does it do?

OtherInbox,
Inc. is an Austin-based company that builds technology to automatically
organize email messages from online shopping and social networking
sites, letting you focus on the messages from real people first.
OtherInbox launched publicly in September 2008 at the TechCrunch50
event in San Francisco.

http://www.otherinbox.com/


What is the Organizer application, and how does it work?

The
Organizer application automatically finds the email messages in your
Yahoo! Mail that are not from real people and organizes them into
folders. Every morning, you'll receive a daily digest showing all of
the messages that have arrived in the past 24 hours to ensure that you
never miss anything. In just a few clicks, your Yahoo! Mail Inbox gets
smaller, leaving just the most important messages from coworkers,
family and friends.

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OtherInbox scans your Yahoo! Mail account
for those automatic, computer-generated messages that tend to pile up,
such as newsletters, coupons, Facebook notifications, Twitter updates,
and many more. You want those messages, but you probably don't need to
see them right away. It's easy for these automated messages to clutter
up your Inbox so much that it becomes difficult to notice the important
emails!

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folders. You'll see one for News, Shopping, Social Networks, et cetera.
You don't have to configure any rules or filters – everything happens
automatically.

These
folders help you quickly find what you are looking for when you need
it. For example, if you're looking for a receipt for something you just
purchased, click on the Shopping folder.

Every morning,
OtherInbox will send you a daily digest of new messages from the past
24 hours, making it easy to decide which messages need your attention
and which can wait until later.

OtherInbox looks for important
dates in your emails, such as UPS and Fedex shipping notifications,
Netflix deliveries, and eBay auctions, and puts them on a special
calendar.

How will the Organizer help me with my Yahoo! Mail?

Since
Yahoo! Mail was one of the first email providers, some of you have had
your Yahoo! Mail accounts for many years and have signed up for so many
emails throughout the years that it has become overwhelming! After
installing the Organizer application, you'll get instant Inbox relief!  

You
don't need to create a separate email address or do anything different.
Just add the Organizer application, and everything happens
automatically!

What’s next?

OtherInbox is
committed to enhancing the Organizer application in the future by
adding smarter filters, recognizing more events to put on your
calendar, and automatically managing receipts and coupons. Expect
frequent updates with new features!

Keep in touch!

Your input matters to us! We have an active user community and are
very responsive to requests for help or suggestions on how to make the
service better. We're ready to talk to you in whatever form you find
most convenient – over the web, by email, on our blog, or on Twitter!

Web http://oib.com

21 May

#OIBFreebie

One of my favorite features with OtherInbox is that it allows me to
sign up for EVERYTHING I want to with ease.  Like most people, I love a
good deal, and using OtherInbox proves there IS such a thing as a free
lunch.  Every week, I find amazing deals and coupons for something free
just waiting for me in my organized mailboxes.  I usually share these
finds with friends and family, but I want to do more. 

Some of
our users have shared these amazing finds from their OIB on twitter,
and we do our best to retweet these when they come up.  However, I
think we can do better than that.  I would like to ask you all to join
us in using #OIBFreebie on twitter when you find something cool or free
in your OtherInbox.  Then people can just search for free deals, and we
can share our treasures with each other.

Feel free to share them any day of the week as
well!

14 May

Calling all International OtherInbox Ambassadors!

Do you have
experience converting Apps?  Are you familiar with OtherInbox? We need
your help! We also want your help with merchant lists, outreach, and
troubleshooting.

Get early access to all our new features, free premium upgrades, and much more!

This month we are looking for help with the following countries:

* India
* Australia
* Brazil
* Mexico
* Taiwan

We are also looking for:

•    UK
•    France
•    Germany
•    Netherlands
•    Etc..
We will be updating many more, so feel free to reach out if your country is not listed yet.

Gracias
Obrigada
Merci
Thank you!

07 May

My OIB Story

This post was guest-written by Superuser Chip Riley.

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I happened to come across OIB while searching Twitter during SXSW.  I
have two Google App accounts, one for personal and one for business,
and I was constantly under bombardment from mailing lists and various
Web2.0 service emails. 

OIB saved my inbox and allowed me to organize
(via custom email addresses) and cut out the spam quickly and easily. 
I actually replied to a user on GetSatisfaction that was complaining
about OIB and how it "took over" his email.  I gave an example of how
the service can allow you to weed out the spam (youdontgetit[at]myname.oib.com)
and, lo and behold, got hit with some spam at that address a couple of
weeks later.  I was able to block the address and never worry about it
again.

Also, as an Austinite, I love seeing local businesses do great and wonderful things!!!

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