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!

So if there was ever a person who needed Organizer, it is my Dad.  He loves to shop online – Ebay, Charity Buzz, Amazon are all in his inbox. He follows all the sports and news blogs and contributes regularly so they are all in his inbox too!

To say that his inbox is overflowing would be an understatement. My pop pushes the limits on being a email hoarder. In fact, I think they would have to come up with a new name for him : Tyranna-Hoardus Rex! Seriously, I had to set up an email account for my mom on her phone because she could never find her emails in my dad’s inbox. For some crazy (and sweet reason) they had been sharing an email address. I guess they still share everything! =)

So this Father’s Day, while I am very sad that I will not be able to be with him, I will be giving him some quality father-daughter phone time. I’ll surely take a minute to help him set up Organizer on his Gmail to ease the flow of newsletters, notifications, reviews, coupons, receipts, and who knows what else!

How about you? Think your dad could use something like Organizer? I bet he could!

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 fall into the Socialite profile! Then enter our 1 Million Signups iPad 2 giveaway! How’s that for a celebration?

The Urban Dictionary defines Socialite as ”Those who talk to erybody at a party and go out of their way to make sure they talk to ERYBODY!”

Sound familiar? Well, have you ever thought to yourself…

“I get a lot of friend requests and invites that I am always checking my email to see what, when and who are new.”

So many friends, so little bandwidth. Socialites are always juggling event invites, updates and friend requests. Eventbright, Facebook, Evite, Twitter and other notifications rule their world and it can be quite the handful staying on top of it all! It’s like the internet is a one big networking party!

Socialites! We say. Bring. It. On. Just use Organizer!

One look at your Daily Digest and Socialites can see where they are going and who might be joining them! It’s almost like having a personal assistant filling you in on your busy life every morning! Except this assistant doesn’t need food.. or money.

So keep on networking Socialites. We got your inbox covered so you won’t miss a person, place or event!

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.

I just got back from Jazzfest in NOLA, catching amazing music and eating as much Cajun/Creole food as I possibly could w/o exploding! I simply did not have time to read all of my email so being able to quickly skim the Digest was awesome!

With my Daily Digest, I don’t always need to open all my mail…. at least not right away. Think about it, new friends and followers, new invites to cool events, newsletters and all the other stuff I sign up for are set up in one nice package.

I like to look at it like a daily mini magazine; one that knows all about me and sometimes offers great deals too!

Yep, the Digest has great deals now too! Last week we ran a couple of Mother’s Day specials that were uber cool.

My mom got a lil’ something from Amazon and I didn’t have to pay for shipping?

Thanks Daily Digest!

So, while moms are totally worth FULL retail, sites such as Groupon, Living Social, Buy With Me and many, many others can help stretch your dollar. Now, Organizer is helping to bring the best deals right up top, front and center in your Daily Digest!

NOTE- Your mom might like Quizno’s but try just a bit harder…

If you are new here, every day OIB makes sure our Organizer users are kept up to date with their email inbox via our very helpful Daily Digest! These lucky-smart people use the Digest everyday to check in with their less than important messages; hacking their own email to do what they want to better fit their lifestyle.

Late last year, we started including ads within the digest and were glad to see people clicking on them, finding the things they needed and wanted!

Now, we are excited to offer some of the very best deals online via our “promoted offers”! Promoted offers will be set up right on top (as a coupon) and have a discrete “promoted” label so you know they were brought to you by us here at OtherInbox HQ.

How do we choose the promoted offers? We simply curate the BEST we can find on the web. A daily deal, a one time offer, the buy-one-get-one-frees of the web you always hear about but can never seem to get in on. If it is blowing up on twitter, facebook deals, a group buying site or even a big box, brick-n-mortar we will corral it and serve it to you via your Daily Digest!

With Organizer, you get a more manageable inbox AND you save money?! Now, won’t Mom be proud? =)

That’s what happens when the biggest party in interactive technology is held in our hometown of Austin, Texas. SXSW.

From 8 floors above we watched as the best and brightest in tech and entertainment did their thing. Last week we talked about all the stuff we were involved in — Startup Crawl, IgniteSXSW and much more — also, we launched Organizer across the pond! Peeps in the UK can now have their inboxes sorted out too!

Lots of amazing things went down in March but we have yet to address one very important thing that happened last month.

Smart Labels.

Right before SX, Google quietly announced the implementation of Smart Labels in Google Labs. Smart labels is their new feature that uses Priority Inbox technology to automatically organize incoming email by certain categories.

Yeah, Google and OtherInbox showed up at the ball wearing the same outfit! Truth be told, we are totally flattered!

So, rather than remind everyone that our own Organizer has a much more robust set of preset categories (11 vs Gmail’s 3) OR that we also have the amazing Unsubscribe Folder that removes you from email lists in one move OR even how you can customize your category folders OR even EVEN the fact that we send you a very handy Daily Digest everyday telling you what these filed emails are,  I thought I would just show some of the responses we found about the new Gmail feature!

Right away we started seeing peeps tweetin bout it-

Tara at email giant Constant Contact wrote this great post about her experience with both Organizer and Smart Labels.

She comments – “Organizer works how I think the Gmail Labs folks hoped the Smart Labels would.” +1, Tara!

What do you think? Who wears it better? Organizer or Smart Labels? Try em both out… give us the scoop! Facebook, Twitter, or help@otherinbox.com. Shoot us a message, we’ll find it in the cloud!

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!

Marketers, developers, business and casual email users all have different reasons to attend an event like Inbox Love. Marketers may need better ideas on how to improve their email deliverable rates, gaining new customers and overall strategy. Developers, like the OIB team, are constantly looking to learn about the latest platforms and program and application solutions to make their products work better.

All of your major email players are there. Email service providers (ESP’s) like Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, Aol are all representing as well as ancillary services and add-ons such as Constant Contact, Rapleaf, Mailchimp and Rackspace and many, many more. Even Facebook is there… talking email. All day.

Why? Because despite all the hub-bub, email is still very much the best way to reach your customer base cheaply and efficiently and is only second to search marketing as far as online marketing tactics go. Additionally, it’s easy to track and adds an element of loyalty in the opt-in process that you simply don’t get with search!

Also, as a copywriter, I personally find the whole art of effective subject lines incredibly fascinating. I mean why do certain things work while others don’t? Writing a great subject line is similar to writing a great tweet or SMS and there is art in what makes people… “click.”

Earlier today, Josh Baer talked about expiring email. Expiring email that can self delete based on when its usefulness is past (like coupons or special offers) could be huge in reducing clutter in our inboxes while making marketing messages more likely to get converted into sales or leads.

Sounds like the talk went well. Jordan tweeted about it HERE!

Jordan reports that Josh mentions how senders are likely to adopt expiring emails because overall we all want things to be better! I agree. It’s just good sense to not annoy your customer.  Add the fact that it will save users time and effort and it’s a no-brainer!

We even made a new friend it seems in @AmyHiggins! See? Proof that conferences can move the needle!

What else would you want your email to do? Shouldn’t coupons tell you when you are about to miss out on a deal? Tell us below, check us on Facebook, tweet about it on Twitter, or send us an email to help@otherinbox.com. Hurry back OIB team, before I drink all this beer…