Have you ever signed up for a free offer or coupon only to discover spam and junk email filling your inbox? You're probably familiar with the practice of signing up for newsletters, coupons, and other sales messages with your primary email address. Then when the junk mail starts showing up, you consider the value of that item. A better system might be to have a separate email account (e.g., [email protected]) strictly used to sign up for sales/coupons/etc.

Let's talk about how a shopping email account might be the best way to enjoy the benefits of coupons, shopping alerts, and newsletters but avoid cluttering your inbox. If you don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a secondary email address for shopping, check out Spike's Priority Inbox section to see how to eliminate clutter and junk email from your primary email account by simply using a better email application.