While bank statements, invoices, and other emails may make you automatically bring your precious dollars to mind and help you to stay on track, other financial-related emails indirectly affect your bottom line just as much but they tend to go overlooked. If you choose to keep ignoring them, you might be making a money mistake.
Not Keeping Tabs on Your Tabs
Like many people, I have a Gmail account. Sometimes I find emails in other tabs when I originally reached out to someone through my primary email. I recently had a major magazine request a quote from me. I don’t remember exactly why this happened but although I emailed through my primary tab, the reply came back but landed in a different tab. Honestly, I don’t usually check other tabs daily. I didn’t get back to the person until five days later! Luckily, they emailed on a Friday so it didn’t seem so bad to answer on a Tuesday, but I wanted to make sure that never happened again….