Comments on: Using ‘Canned Responses’ to Save Time While Helping Readers (and how I’d improve Canned Responses)

By: pornoizle

pornoizle — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:31:49 +0000

In my opinion blog post titles should be easily readable and understandable by the readers then only they will read the post .

By: Inchirieri Masini

Inchirieri Masini — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:42:10 +0000

Wow, this is very useful.. Thanks for sharing this and hoping I could implement it too.

By: Joe Alban, L.Ac.

Joe Alban, L.Ac. — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:05:24 +0000

Thanks Darrin, this has revolutionized my communications!

By: Matutu Nyabange

Matutu Nyabange — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:14:36 +0000

Mmmh I gave it a short today.it’s kind of cool lool.

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By: Lesley Dewar

Lesley Dewar — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:30:12 +0000

Great post, Darren, and I am just starting to use gmail – so it’s very helpful there.

One thing I find useful is to have a series of headings (or messages) set out on a word doc that is open while I am answering email. Quick Alt+Tab, find the right answer or heading, Ctrl C; Ctrk V and it’s done.

You can have the auto responses set up so you can alway add a personal comment at the end.

For Example: This is a great story and you can do a search in Twitter for ‘accident’ to find someone who has had this happen to them. By the way, (RT) do you know you can join Twitter from LinkedIn and have fun,too? http://tinyurl.com/d3ad8v

Cheers
Lesley

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Free Webmaster SEO Tools — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:55:44 +0000

Sounds like a great tool!

By: iwank

iwank — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:22:48 +0000

Hey this is new for me. Even i did not know about this feature before read this post. But any how i like use of Gmail only because of it’s features.

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:23:44 +0000

Great article, truly a time saver. Am thinking that since I’m not using gmail to get most of my email I’ll have to set up something similar. Word files could work as long as the replies are short. Word saved as txt would be slightly better. I love the idea of a drop down… mulling it all over as usual.

Thanks

By: Krishna Srinivasan

Krishna Srinivasan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:01:15 +0000

I really don’t know about this feature in GMail. I will try it right away. Thank you for the tips.

By: Mike B. Fisher

Mike B. Fisher — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:54:02 +0000

I’m impressed that you can handle that volume of email even with the filters helping out. I think I’d find over 100 in a day to be unmanageable with all the other additional distractions that life throws in one’s way.

By: Vincent Ng

Vincent Ng — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:43:49 +0000

OH my GOD! I’m glad I read this section. My e-mails are already reaching a high capacity, and I was worried about that. I don’t want to be a slave to my e-mails…so this is really good! I hadn’t even noticed unless this blog had mentioned it

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:41:26 +0000

Using it from long and it helped me in a big way to reply to all of my messages…

Thanks for spreading the word…

By: Nicole/Madlab Post

Nicole/Madlab Post — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:38:23 +0000

On the surface, canned responses does seem impersonal in my opinion, but so does those Automated emails that many companies, individuals and websites have setup that make customers and members think that someone has actually responded until they open the email and find an automated response that says something along the lines of “This is a notice that your email has been received and will be reviewed in the next 24 hours or days or weeks….and by the way….this is a no-response email so any replies that you send to this address will not be looked at”….you get the drift!

Those emails annoy me so much, especially when I’m trying to solve a problem or technical issue with a website or service.

In this situation, canned responses may be the best way for you to be able to respond to emails and still blog and participate on all of the websites where you are a member.

I do not believe that canned responses are impersonal when it comes to ProBlogger because you have to sleep, eat and have time for yourself and your friends and loved ones. It is a treasure that readers can still have the assurance that you are actually answering their emails instead of some hired assistant, secretary or blogging intern so I would not complain, even if I got one of your “Canned Emails”.

Problogger, Digital Photography school readers and any other people that send you emails should take comfort in the fact that even if your response may be taken from your saved “Canned responses”, at least the response is still from you and not a computer. You did sit down and write them, so that counts for something. Readers should also take comfort in the fact that you take time to read your emails personally.

I don’t think that readers could get that same service from the President, NASCAR drivers or many celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey.

Those Canned Responses can save you a lot of time and effort from having to answer the questions that you have been asked before. It’s like having your own FAQs page or “Most asked Questions” page. It all essentially serves the same purpose and works for the greater good.

Using canned responses, you can address the unique and original questions in a more effective manner without being overwhelmed from the typical questions that are asked frequently and are not original.

By: ZK@Internet Marketing Blog

ZK@Internet Marketing Blog — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:37:02 +0000

Certainly a busy blogger like you will have to find out some solution for this. As you cant afford to loose your readers and replying to every mail through scratch is very time consuming as well.

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diabetes ii symptoms — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:54:54 +0000

that’s great , you can maximizing function of gmail…..I never use it before, thanks

By: ramaraobobby

ramaraobobby — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:42:25 +0000

Very useful information. Prior to reading this, I am not aware of this new wonderful feature added in Gmail even though using it daily to respond to my mails. This canned response feature would be a great help to me as well.
You Rock!! Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:54:39 +0000

That is brillient! I wish Hotmail would offer something like this, I’ve had the same Hotmail address for about six years now and don’t really want to lose it. :(

By: Neil Matthews

Neil Matthews — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:48:40 +0000

I use canned responses from multiple accounts, and the things which bugs me is the lack of functionality to set the reply email address to match to your response.

Gmail evolves at some speed so I expect this to come at some point

By: Kash

Kash — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:47:55 +0000

Great Idea for managing bulk emails. I will note it down somewhere – Just in case if me and my blog become famous in Internet world!!.. :).

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Latest Technology Gadgets — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:22:54 +0000

Wow, this is very useful.. Thanks for sharing this and hoping I could implement it too.