Please sir. Can I have some more?

Wait. Did I just say that out loud?  Here is the problem I was confronted with today while working at Buca di Beppo yesterday.

Problem:

We have several Twitter accounts.  They all need separate email addresses because Twitter requires a unique email addresses for each account. We just obtained @bucaphilly and we have @bucadibepo so I needed two separate emails. We could be create a Twitter account for each store. If we did that … we would need 84 accounts. Imagine managing 84 accounts. 84 different email addresses and passwords. What a headache. I needed a long term solution.

Solution:

Create 1 gmail account. That’s right 1. Not 1 account for each Twitter account but 1 account for all of the Twitter accounts. But how might you ask. Great question. Here’s how.

I created a gmail account. Lets say its bucatweets@gmail.com (its not so go ahead and spam that account). With all gmail accounts you can append a plus sign to the end of your email address.  What I did was took the main email address and appended the store number to the end.  For example: @bucaphilly is store number 4123 (hypothetical) the email address for @bucaphilly that I gave Twitter was bucatweets+4123@gmail.com. You can then set up filters within gmail to direct the emails into different folders and have them labeled so that everything is nice and organized.  This enables you to have only 1 email address for the billions of Twitter accounts that you have.

Here’s an awesome article by gmail with more information on how to set everything up. And here is an article on how to set up filters.

How do you handle organizing your emails? What has been effective for you?