3 Fun and Geeky Ways to Save With Your Email

I know you must be an experienced saver (you are reading this blog!). But there are still money-saving tricks you are probably not aware of.

Let’s take a look at three of them. Here’s my list of 3 fun and geeky ways to save with your email.

1. Create a Money-Saving Gmail Filter

If you have ever bought anything online, you’re probably subscribed to the store’s email updates.

Or perhaps you have a few favorite stores you turn to on a regular basis that offer good coupons and special offers. Wouldn’t it be nice to track deals from those stores without stuffing your Gmail inbox?

Here’s a way out: create a Gmail filter.

1. Login to your Gmail and go to: Settings – Labels and create a new label called “DEALS”

2. Go to: Settings – Filters and click “Create a new filter”

3. Submit the following values:

From : *@amazon.com OR *@ebay.com OR *@barnesandnoble.com OR (*@ yourfavoritestoredomain .com)

: *@amazon.com OR *@ebay.com OR *@barnesandnoble.com OR (*@ .com) To: me

4. Go to the next step and choose the following:

Check “Skip the inbox” (to avoid clutter in your inbox);

Star the message (you will be able to unstar after you check the deal details);

Apply the label “DEALs” (to collect all the offers in one place).

You are done! Now, every time that a new deal comes from the store you track, it will automatically be stored in your “DEALs” folder.

2. Create a Customized Money Alert

Another way to track online deals and avoid email clutter at the same time is to create a customized email alert – this way you will only be updated on what really matters to you.

My favorite site to do that is Buxr. The site allows to customize your email alert by:

The store name (choose “All” if you have no particular seller in mind);

Type of a deal (coupon, sale, product or all);

Any term:

This way you will only get updates on all deals related to “laptops”.

3. What If There Is No Email Subscription Option?

Sometimes you really love the site and you would like to monitor their updates but they don’t offer an email subscription option. No worries.

Let’s say the site is “ListFreeSamples.com” (I personally use this site as the freebie source but it has no email subscription option), so here’s what you need to do:

Go to Google Alerts and create a new email alert for site:listfreesamples.com:

You are done. Once Google finds anything new on the site, it will update you via email.

Any more tricks on saving money with your email? Please share them in the comments!

This is a guest post by Ann Smarty who blogs on searchand social media. If you are looking for guest bloggers or blogs that need contributors, join Ann’s forum called My Blog Guest.

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