So we're going to get into plus addressing today.
And that's essentially just for your emails,
which means that you can have your name plus category@yourdomain.com.
Um, and for example, I'm using Gmail today and essentially what happens is,
for example, if I want to filter emails for sales,
I can do Tim '+' sales@onaxim.com.
Um,
and essentially what's going to happen is that email is going to filter into my
sales inbox.
So this is really handy to sort of give particular email addresses to particular
clients or websites or whatever you need to do. Um, and that,
that way you can just automatically get your emails filtered into different
inboxes, so you can stay organized and on top of your emails.
So I'm going to show you how to do this today. Uh, this is on Gmail. Um,
you will notice that some, uh, clients will,
some email clients will do this automatically for you. For example,
in my previous video where we set up our own email business email, um,
in C panel, you can actually make it automatically do this for you, but on GML,
we have to set a few filters. So I'm going to show you how to do that today.
Let's get into it. So for the purposes of this video,
I made a new Gmail account, which is just Timonaxim@gmail.com.
And I'm going to quickly show you exactly how this plus addressing works with
the filters already set, and then we'll go into how to set up for yourself.
So I'm going to go into my official email inbox, which it's hosted with, um,
Google workspace. Um,
so I actually have my official business email hosted through Google and
I, I'm going to send an email from this account to TimOnaxim@gmail.com,
uh, with the plus addressing.
So I'm going to compose a new email and it's Tim - Onaxim.
And now this is where I put my plus address in. So I just go plus,
and since I want to have this sent to sales, I can just type plus sales and then
@gmail.com. So for example,
you could be sending this email address to particular clients,
or have it on your website. Um, when someone clicks a link to send an email,
it can go straight to this, um, email address that they can send to.
So I'm just going to set up a quick email here,
which we'll send.
Yeah.
So I've got my email already and I'm just going to click send.
So this has sent my email out and what I can do is I can go back over to
my, uh, TimOnaxim@gmail.com inbox.
And we're just going to refresh this until our new email comes in. There we go.
Beautiful. It's just ready to come in. So as you can see,
I've already got a label there saying sales. Um,
I can already see the subject and when I want to filter through to see only my
sales emails, I can just click on this label over here,
which essentially is a folder in Gmail. Um,
and it's only going to show me the sales inquiries or the emails that have been
sent with that little plus sales. Um,
so this is super handy and I'm going to go right into showing you how to set
this up for yourself.
So another email address or a plus address that you might want to use is
something like accounts or billing. Um,
so if you sign up to a lot of subscription services, um,
you can send this plus address too, or you can insert this plus address,
which is just going to be TimOnaxim + billing@gmail.com. Um,
so this is going to be handy to sort of filter it and keep it nice and neat in
your Gmail inbox.
So what we're going to do is go up to settings in the top right corner,
and then click see all settings.
Now find the category that says filters and blocked addresses,
and we can set up a new filter.
So you can see there's a filter already over here right now. Um,
and it looks a little bit complicated maybe. Um, but it's really simple.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy this and you're
going to get this in the description of the video or on the blog post,
which you only need to change the little middle bit here,
which is your email and also the plus, uh, plus address there.
So we're going to customize this now to make a new one for billing.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to paste this in that includes the words
and essentially what this is here. It's saying,
if it sees an email coming into this inbox,
which is going to be TimOnaxim + sales, um,
and this is essentially the same thing saying the same thing here. Um,
it's just to make sure that we catch all the emails, um,
that we want to filter this. Uh, so I'm going to change sales to billing,
and I'm going to do the same over here.
Now you just need to make sure that you're replacing your email, um,
and add in whichever customer plus address you want in there.
And I'm going to just click create filter.
Now this is you can do whatever you want here. You can select, um,
whichever way you want to filter the email that you've set for this plus
address, but I'm going to keep it simple for today.
And I'm just going to apply a label.
Now I'm going to add a new label because I don't have a billing label yet.
So let's just end up billing and hit create.
Now I can select any other filters to match, um, any more emails,
but I'm just ready to click create filter.
Now that isn't going to be any emails that are in this billing label or category
yet. So I'm going to send an email now to test out this new filter.
So this is back into my, uh, business email. Um,
and I'm going to send to TimOnaxim again,
but this time with +
billing@gmail.com. So for example,
this is probably going to be an automatic email from wherever you've subscribed
to, or, um, someone that your receiving bills from. Um,
so you'll probably see something like new charge. Um,
you have been charged $900,
or $9,000.
So what's going to happen now is I'm going to send this email and it's hopefully
going to be filtered into the correct inbox here.
So we're just going to go back to my inbox and we're just gonna wait for that
email to come through.
We can hit refresh to see if it's going to come in any sooner.
There we are. So now you can already see that it's got the 'billing' label, uh,
and obviously you see your subject and a little bit of the text in there. Um,
and it's now in our category down here,
so I can click billing and now I can see just my billing emails, likewise,
my sales there, and my inbox is just going to show all of it. Um,
and you can further customize this, but this is super handy. Uh,
so you should check this out, play around with it,
set up some filters to clean out your inbox. Um,
and it's just going to make your life a whole lot easier.
So now we all set up with our email filter and using the plus address,
and now most emails will allow you to do this. Um,
but if they don't, that's unfortunate because this is a really handy feature.
Um, but again, most can do it. Now.
You might want to only use this if you don't have a business email already,
because for example, if you don't, if you haven't a business email,
so@mybusiness.com,
you can just do a billing@mybusiness.com or
accounts@mybusiness.com. Um,
but this gives you an alternative if you're just using one address. Um,
but also you can use a combination of that. So for example,
if you do have a business email address, you can do, um,
billing plus company@mybusiness.com.
So that way you can sort of filter bills into different categories or labels,
um, based on which company they come in from, um,
and also what they are so billing, um, and which company. So, yeah,
check that out, give it a shot because this is a really good feature to use.