Important – If you use Gmail…

If you’re a Gmail user, you may have a “tabbed inbox” system and we wanted to give you a quick heads up so you can access all of our exciting offerings for your journey to becoming a media darling.

Google splits your inbox into separate inboxes and created tabs across the top, labeled Primary, Social, Promotions, etc.

The issue is…they’ve also decided that THEY, not YOU, get to choose which emails go into which new inbox tab, unless you direct them otherwise.

What does that mean?

A lot of emails you’ve asked to receive will end up under the Promotions tab, even though they’re valuable content and you’ve specifically asked to get them.

This typically means all emails from bloggers, other websites and people whose emails, opt-ins and e-zines you subscribe to are being funneled into the “Promotions” inbox automatically, where you may not look. Which means you’ll end up missing a lot of excellent information you wanted!

The good news is there’s a fast and easy fix for you.

Look at your Gmail account to see if the new “tabbed” inboxes have been turned on (you’ll see the new tabs across the top of your emails).

If so, here’s how to make sure you’re seeing what you’ve asked to see:

Click on the Promotions inbox tab. Drag any emails from people you actually want to hear from (including me, Susan Harrow and prsecrets.com!) and drop them onto the tab that says Primary.

Then, when it asks if you want future emails to go into your Primary inbox, just click yes.

So be sure to check your Promotions inbox to make sure nothing else you really want is getting caught in it.

Easy enough! Thanks for being a loyal part of our tribe 🙂

P.S. – By the way, if you want to totally turn off the new tabbed inboxes (which I did, because I don’t want anyone else screening the email I’ve asked to receive and find it harder to check multiple tabs), just click on the Settings “gear” image at the upper right corner of your inbox and select “Settings.”

Click the “Inbox” tab and uncheck ALL of the categories except “Primary,” and then save your changes.