How to Un-Send an email on Gmail.

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Hey Warriors,

As Webmasters, Bloggers, Entrepreneurs and Marketers, we tend to spend a lot of time on Gmail.

I personally spend a ton of time on Gmail everyday, reading and sending outreach emails and what not. Recently, I started researching for ways to use Gmail more efficiently as a marketer and here is one of my favorite tips.

Sometimes you look over an important email a million times before sending it and find no mistakes.

You only realize that you had made a horrible mistake in that email seconds after sending it.

This is where this very awesome undo-sending email link comes in. It actually allows you to un-send an email for a few seconds after you sent it.

This new undo button can be an absolute life saver.

Set it up by going to Settings and clicking on Labs.




Scroll down until you find Undo Send, click enable and click Save Changes.





From this moment on every time you send an email, a little notification will popup allowing you to un-send this email for the next five seconds.

So how are you using Gmail efficiently? Any tips that can help you save time or make you a better marketer?
#blogger #email #gmail #marketing #unsend #webmaster
  • Profile picture of the author vaibhavm1
    This is great Mark, love the detail and the post as well. I am going to have to give Streak and Rapportive try. Like the make search faster tip as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarkTrueman
      Thanks Vaibhavm1!

      Glad you liked the post and found this to be helpful. Yes streak is pretty awesome, it makes management of your contacts and emails a lot easier.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkTrueman
    Thanks gpwilson,

    Glad you liked it!
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    Nice little tutorial ya got, that will come in really handy for people. lol I cant count how many times I've hit send when I meant to hit something else!
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    • Profile picture of the author MarkTrueman
      @whos the guru, Haha thanks. Yea that is one of the main reasons why I like this little tip.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarkTrueman
      Kal,

      Agreed. but this is more for the time when you click and you realize you should have done something else instead as opposed to actively look for a mistake.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
    I never noticed that, great insight but it isn't really helpful for a wide range of errors people commit due to the timing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kal Sallam
    Nice feature you are sharing there. But 5 seconds is not enough time to find a mistake.
    Unless the only mistake was hitting the send button by accident.
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  • Profile picture of the author Justin Sardi
    I used to use that all the time with my old email and forgot how to enable it! Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Thats a handy little option :-)

    Danny
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  • Profile picture of the author PeckhamPirate
    Google Labs began so well, but there's been nothing new for ages.

    Another great tool they have is 'canned responses', which let's you store and retrieve templates for popular emails you find yourself sending.

    It's perfect if you tend to answer the same questions time after time from customers or clients.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarkTrueman
      Canned responses is great, I talked about it in the post.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    I was just thinking about this the other day while i was talking to my old IT job. I know Microsoft Outlook has kinda the same feature, but didnt realize Gmail could do the same thing too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Willing2Learn
    Cool! I never knew that was possible and I've been known to send a wonky email a time of two. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Ocasio
    Thanks for the tip Mark! Never even knew Gmail had an undo option
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