Everyone who communicates on the internet via email has the same old problem of SPAM and it’s becoming more apparent that the recent unsolicited commercial emails (UCE) laws implemented in the US and Europe are not having an impact. Did you know that over 60% of SPAM is from the US? I was quite surprised [...]
Putting up and maintaining a weblog of your own could be done for free or built into your paid domain site. Either way, whatever you put up on your blog becomes accessible to practically anyone on the World Wide Web. Your blog has the potential to gain many regular followers and once-in-a-while visitors, given that [...]
Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems used to send unsolicited bulk messages and is universally unwanted. As an email marketer, this is something you want to avoid. There are two main types of subscribers you can acquire: single opt-in and double opt-in. Single opt-in implies permission. Someone has given you explicit [...]
There is no excuse for forwarding what I call friendly spam which is junk email from known contacts which appears convincing, but is actually spam. Small business owners should be cautious, or you may risk loss in credibility. In most cases the spam contains an alarming message quoted from a supposedly credible source that shocks [...]
If you’re not careful about how you write and format your marketing emails, you may discover that a very large percentage are not even reaching their destination. They’re flagged and discarded by various Spam filters, which are becoming tighter on their requirements for what passes as valid email with each passing day. Even if [...]
Spam, the scourge of almost all forms of communication. Spamming is the sending of unsolicited junk mail, the term became popular during the first few years of the internet being used commercially in the 1990’s. People’s inboxes became flooded with virtual junk mail covering anything from free electrical goods to cheap Viagra pills. As a [...]
There are so many businesses on the internet that can offer their customers a variety of discounts and special deals after the customer signs up for newsletters at the website, but 90% of these customers never receive these emails. Why? Because spam filters have taken over and left your customers in the dust when it [...]
