Ryan Dohrn shows how email templates in Outlook and Gmail can save salespeople 100 to 175 hours a year. He uses large X placeholders for custom fields and keeps subject lines to three words, three sentences max. Small time savings add up fast.
Hey friends, Ryan Dohrn here, your global sales and marketing advisor, and today we're talking templates. Now we've been talking a lot about emails the last few videos and templates. Boy, you need to figure out how to save them. Now were you aware that inside of Outlook, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook 365, there's a little add-on for templates when you click to compose an email? Also, you can save your templates if you like under Quick Parts. In older versions of Outlook as well. Now in Gmail, you're gonna use canned responses— is typically the easiest way to do that. All right, now templates— some secrets for you. Any place inside a template that needs to be customized, you want to use big X's to make sure you don't miss out. But here's the thing to remember: in any given day, if you could save yourself even 20 minutes, 30 minutes by pulling up a template rather than recreating an email, How much time is that over the course of a year? In some cases, it's as much as 100 hours depending upon your level of complexity of sale, your level of distraction, and things like that. Just by using templates, I have clients that'll save 100 to 175 hours a year just by using templates. Now, hey, I know what some of you do. You're like, oh, I don't need a template. I'll just go to my sent box or my outbox and Search for it. Come on, friends. If you can save clicks, you can save seconds. If you can save seconds, you can save minutes. And if you can save minutes, you can save hours. Templates, friends. But don't forget, follow that good old Ryan Dohrn rule of 3 and 3. 3 words in the subject line and 3 sentences max. Don't forget, friends, if sales was easy, everybody'd be doing it. And they're not. So we're either nuts, which is possible, or we found careers that'll feed our families for a lifetime. All right, subscribe to these videos over on YouTube. Check me out, Ryan Dohrn Live, over on Facebook. And love to come and work with your team virtually or in person. I've already had COVID, so I'm coming COVID-free to your office. All right, check me out over at ryandohrn.com. All right, friends, we'll see you around.
