My email box looks like a modern, stylish swedish designed storage. Clean and purposeful — it’s a joy to open it up every day.
It has never been like that before. Before I met Ethan Waldman from Claud Coach.

Who’s Ethan.

Ethan is technology coach, mac fanatic, and multi instrumentalist. We both like hot yoga (sometimes called Power), cycling and WordPress. Ethan’s work spans between email marketing and cycling. I consider him, first and foremost, Inbox Zero guy. He is responsible for my flourishing relationship with gmail.

Background story : my love-hate relationship with Gmail.

I’ve had gmail account for quite few years. I’ve never really learnt to love it. When I started Rawfoodtip, I knew I’d rather communicate with people professionally, using  my own rawfoodtip domain for that. I set up the rawfoodtip and connected it with mac mail. At that time I learnt to love macmail only because I spent insane amount of time researching productivity tips and tutorials about that. I had my folders in place and forwarding ready to go.
I thought I’m a genius.
For quite some time I was sure I get all the email I suppose to be getting into the folders I previously activated. Wrong. The glitches were constant.
I was receiving multiple messages, people started contacting me on using my private gmail email (yeah, I basically published it on the web..) to ask me why I’m not responding. My iMac was doing it’s own thing and my Macbook Pro another.

Insane.

Pretty quickly I realized I’m no genius. I’m a mess. An email box mess.

I’ve dealt with this situation for a while, came back to gmail for some time, set up some nice synchronization between work email and gmail (in Gmail), but — again — there was no spark. I would go back and forth between gmail and mac mail, never satisfied, always buried under junk email, newsletters, spam and alerts.

Nightmare.

And then I found Ethan. I remember I was intrigued by his cloud icon and big blue eyes. They must know stuff, I thought. Don’t blame me, I’m a very visual person.

And oh, he does know his stuff.

First of all, let me tell you something really, really important. Something you might not agree with me right away. It’s crazy. It’s a terrifying truth.

We love getting bunch of emails. We, especially who work online, love to get emails in the beginning of the biz journey, because that tells us that we count. As long as there is an email in that inbox, we have work to do. No matter, if it’s an important one or just another distraction from The Important Work.

So, there it is. The truth of the addiction.

This revelation was very important to me. I only faced it after following Ethan’s guidance. The business of stuff needed to go. It didn’t do any good to my business. Quite the opposite.

Ethan is an incredible coach. He has passion and patience, which is quite a rare combination. Or almost impossible. Thanks to him I’m back in Gmail and it looks preeeeety seeeexyyy!

ENTER INBOX ZERO

living with the cluttered inbox is a choice.

After following Ethan’s work, I let go of stuff, junk doesn’t clutter my inbox, I live in my Gmail with documents, calendars, multiple gmail accounts and professional ones. I got to know how to schedule my emails and I could even undo the sending. Everything received it’s on space and that doesn’t make me feel schizophrenic anymore.

That’s what you can learn from Ethan. He’s opening the door to his digital training Inbox Zero and you better jump on board. It’s an opportunity to get organized, calm and live within your means. No one can afford loosing time. Time is money, we know it. Time is precious. Seeing your email box all cleaned up and running like a swedish watch is a dream for anyone.

So go and sign up here.

And since I’m such a fan of Ethan’s work, I’ve decided to giveaway 10 of my junior WordPress programs Create Your Website Fast. Ten!

I never talk about people or program I don’t wholeheartedly support. Inbox Zero is one of those don’t miss out opportunities.  I bet you don’t even know how much more relaxed your personal and professional email relationship could be. Believe me, it can be a joy to read newsletters that matter. It will be a joy to see all the stuff going into the right places, have your clients categorized, have your alerts organized.

BONUSES

Here are $360 worth of bonuses as a thank-you for signing up early:

FIRST 50 People To Enroll in the Inbox Zero Training Program

1. Signatures that Sell: Learn the secrets of creating an irresistible email signature that promotes you, your brand, or your business every time you send an email. ($19)
2. Gmail: The Missing Manual: Confused about the new Gmail look? With this video and series of worksheets, I give you a clear run down of what everything in the interface does, from inbox to archive, settings to labs. ($29)

FIRST 20 People To Enroll in the Inbox Zero Training Program
The first 20 people who enroll in the Inbox Zero Training Program will get everything the first 50 members get plus…

3. A copy of Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus’ seminal new book, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life ($14.95)
4. Access to Jonathan Mead and Charlie Gilkey’s The Dojo, an incredible audio masterclass on productivity ($67).
(This course literally changed the way I worked, and I told Jonathan that I simply HAD to offer it in conjunction with the Inbox Zero Training Program.) 10 is all I could afford to give away.. Make sure you grab this one!

FIRST 10 People To Enroll in the Inbox Zero Training Program
The first 10 people who enroll in the Inbox Zero Training Program will get everything the first 20 members get plus…

5. Free access to Marta Spendowska’s CreateYourWebsiteFast ($99). Learn how to set up, integrate, and maintain your very own WordPress site in one weekend.

FIRST 5 People To Enroll in the Inbox Zero Training Program
The first 5 people who enroll in the Inbox Zero Training Program will get everything the first 20 members get plus…

6. A complementary Email Clutterbusting Session with me (usually $129)
Ok. That’s it.

So, if you’re still here, I see you there right after 7am  EST.

Below you can see Ethan and his The Automated Inbox Blueprint in action.

• Loving the dock dividers for Mac. You can either use your terminal of just grab some of these goodies from Adam Betts or Brandon Kelly.
• JCPenny has a new logo, which doesn’t spek to my heart.
• Superette get’s new branding idea by DDB Auckland. Clever, but courageous or creepy?  Red marks on the thighs.
• Did you undergo Lasik ? No? Maybe it’s better if you’ll think it over.
• Recent Interiors Blog—tinyk. Love the bright pics.
• How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days.
• And — you deserve a tool a week, so here we go : Studio Cloud // Business Management Software, as a desktop and free ( to some great extend!).




Johnny Kelly – Showreel September 2007 from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

• Un-Sedicesimo • 16 activities for creatives by Frank Chimero.
• Starting March 11th, 2011, developers won’t be able to build new FMBL apps, and Pages won’t be able to add static FBML apps as Page tabs (iFrames and FBML).
• I started using a lightweight To-Do management tool : Anxiety. It’s highlight — remains in sync with iCal and Mail.
• Are you bored with your perfumes? Check CB I Hate Perfumes — special individual experience.
• Recent discovery :  Disk Inventory X — for figuring out exactly what’s taking up all that space on your Mac (did I mention it’s free?)
• Why can’t we walk straight — Robert Krulwich + Benjamin Arthur : below.

( via : almightygod )

Add Ons for SAFARI : (I can’t link to the particular ones, you need to go to add ons site and look for the ones I am mentioning).

• Shorten Links : ( YourVersion Discovery, Thurly )
• Restore Session.
• Firebug Lite.
• Twuffer - for tweeting your tweets on schedule ( I find it simplier than SocialOomph ).

Check also : 10 Best Safari Browser Plugins (Mac)

Btw, I am writing this post using Scribe Fire for Safari and I’m loving it.

Cheers!