- 1). Create separate folders for your personal emails and your business emails. If possible, highlight the names of the personal folders in a different color than the business folders. If you can't change colors, give the folders names like "Business-Scheduling," "Business-Taxes," "Personal-Family," and "Personal-Friends". That way, your email program will list the folders in alphabetical order. What's more, all of the business email folders will be together and all of the personal email folders will be together.
- 2). Use your email rules to send new emails into one of two folders, instead of your inbox. You can use the rules to sort emails by sender, so your personal contacts and business contacts will have their email sent to different folders. This will help you keep your emails separate.
- 3). Use an automatic signature that is appropriate and neither too business-oriented nor too personal-oriented. If you use quotes or other attachments for your signature, make sure that they are work appropriate.
- 4). Double-check each email you send to make sure you are not sending something to the wrong address.
- 5). Divide your contacts into two groups within your email program. This will allow you to have separate contact lists for business and personal emails.
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