{"id":3511,"date":"2011-08-23T08:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T13:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2011-08-23T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T13:44:16","slug":"the-profits-of-noemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-profits-of-noemail\/","title":{"rendered":"The Profits of #noemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erica.biz\/2011\/no-email\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"#noemail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erica.biz\/images\/no-email-trial.jpg\" title=\"#noemail\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"250\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on this blog, I wrote a piece about <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-cost-of-noemail\/\">the cost of #noemail. A personal cost really a library fine<\/a>. Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erica.biz\/about-erica\/\">Erica Douglass<\/a> of erica.biz has written a kind of answer to that article within her chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erica.biz\/2011\/no-email\/\">My 30-Day No Email Trial: The Results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Erica goes about her #noemail experiment methodically and with some interesting assistance from some commercial software including her virtual, but part-time human, assistant, Susan. Susan is a nice touch, a custom autoresponder and junk mail deleter and summarizer of messages.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Erica &#8212; who is afterall running a consulting and speaking service &#8212; was able to save money by not doing email. She figures the profits this way:<\/p>\n<p>First the cost of Susan: <em>Susan spends about an hour a week on my email, so that\u2019s a bit over $60\/month in direct costs to me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Next the profits as measured by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rescuetime.com\/\">RescueTime<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I went from spending 1-2 hours a day on email to 3-5 hours a week. That\u2019s a savings of approximately 5 hours a week. At my consulting rate of $500\/hour, that\u2019s a $10,000\/month savings.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, not every hour I saved could be billed out at $500. But even if every hour I save is worth $50 (and I think that\u2019s a fair assumption), I saved $1,000\/month<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, so somewhere between $1K and $10K per month in savings as measure only during the one month of June\/July. That&#8217;s a very broad somewhere across a very specific time frame. I would definitely question those results if submitted to me as a research paper by a student. Nonetheless, this isn&#8217;t a research paper as much as a personal testimony by someone who is putting her business on the line. That&#8217;s the power of Erica&#8217;s experiment. And the results when seen in that context are very promising.<\/p>\n<p>As Erica says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In other words, unchaining myself from email massively benefited me in terms of both having more time and having a better emotional state (which is, frankly, priceless.) I don\u2019t hate waking up and getting on the computer any more. That\u2019s huge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier on this blog, I wrote a piece about the cost of #noemail. A personal cost really a library fine. Now, Erica Douglass of erica.biz has written a kind of answer to that article within her chronicle: My 30-Day No Email Trial: The Results. Erica goes about her #noemail experiment methodically and with some interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}