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Casual Articles - Is This The Solution To Stop Spam?
Does being managed by others smack more of “Survivor” than Stephen Covey for you? Could there BE any more management styles out there—have you gotten to experience all of them yet? And what kind of manager are you—or should you try to be?If you’re reading this, you’re probably familiar with too many types of management and leadership styles—more flavors than months, for the most part. On the leadership, not so much. I offer to you now an additional insight into a newly designated style that you will recognize, and may even find funny. Or not, depending on life at work.And speaking of life at work,
There are several decent tools around for filtering spam:
- Gmail has a spam filter that has good reputation.
- Thunderbird, sort of an open source version of Outloook Express, has a good spam filter.
- Cactus has a great filter, and it's free. It takes a little training, but nothing an average PC-user can't handle.
These days many
The principles of Niche Marketing are based on sound business practices that have been studied and tested in past years by some of the world’s most successful marketers.I intend to set out for you the knowledge and tools that you will need to determine niche product ideas, study them, select a suitable product, develop the product, profit from the marketing of the product and then duplicate your success in another niche product.What is a niche market?A niche market is a group of people that have a need for a certain product that is not popular amongst the majority of consumers but whose dema
I've been using email since about 1994. In those days getting spam in your inbox was a novelty; almost a "someone's thinking about me" type moment. These days not much spam gives you that warm fuzzy feeling. Not long ago I was up to 300 spam emails a day.
Currently email users, ISPs, hosting companies and SysAdmins are losing a war to stop spam slowing down the internet, clogging up our inboxes and taking all the damn fun out of emailing. There are many ways to minimise spam and here are a few:
- Never use your true email address in a blog/newsgroup.
- Never put your email address on a website.
- Never give your email address out to anyone unless you are 100% sure of their good intentions towards you.
- Never send an email to a group of people using CC (use BCC) and NEVER let one of your skanky mates CC you either. (and if you work out how to do that, let me know.)
- Get a disposable email address from hotmail, yahoo, etc. for those moments when you HAVE to give it out, and change it whenever you start getting spam.
If it's from a reputable retailer/business where you have in the past give your email address, it's pretty safe to hit unsubscribe/remove and they will honour your request (it usually takes a week or so for them to clean you out of their marketing database). I'd include Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, and the like in this list.
If it's from Bob's Online Drugs, don't go near it. The spammers will know from your remove request that your email addy is valid, and guess what? You'll get more!
There are several decent tools around for filtering spam:
- Gmail has a spam filter that has good reputation.
- Thunderbird, sort of an open source version of Outloook Express, has a good spam filter.
- Cactus has a great filter, and it's free. It takes a little training, but nothing an average PC-user can't handle.
These days many I
What makes a successful online marketer? What differentiate the online marketers who are making money from those who are not? It is very easy to spend a great deal of time online thinking you are building your business. It takes commitment and whatever it takes attitude to make money online.To be successful online you have to have a game plan. Otherwise you will not achieve your goals. Online business is divided into phases and each phase needs to be developed if you want to succeed.The first phase I call the product phase. Know what you want to market. If you don’t have your own product, si
- Never use your true email address in a blog/newsgroup.
- Never put your email address on a website.
- Never give your email address out to anyone unless you are 100% sure of their good intentions towards you.
- Never send an email to a group of people using CC (use BCC) and NEVER let one of your skanky mates CC you either. (and if you work out how to do that, let me know.)
- Get a disposable email address from hotmail, yahoo, etc. for those moments when you HAVE to give it out, and change it whenever you start getting spam.
If it's from a reputable retailer/business where you have in the past give your email address, it's pretty safe to hit unsubscribe/remove and they will honour your request (it usually takes a week or so for them to clean you out of their marketing database). I'd include Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, and the like in this list.
If it's from Bob's Online Drugs, don't go near it. The spammers will know from your remove request that your email addy is valid, and guess what? You'll get more!
There are several decent tools around for filtering spam:
- Gmail has a spam filter that has good reputation.
- Thunderbird, sort of an open source version of Outloook Express, has a good spam filter.
- Cactus has a great filter, and it's free. It takes a little training, but nothing an average PC-user can't handle.
These days many
What are values? Values are filters that everyone uses to help make sense of all the information we must process before we make a decision. When you appeal to a person's values you speak directly to their decision-making criteria.Values:In simple terms, values are what is most important to us. If you ask yourself: what is most important to me about having a new car? You will discover the key issues that you consider when buying a car. Your prospects will also pay attention to their values when you present your offering.Ask your prospects what is most important to them and they will t
If it's from a reputable retailer/business where you have in the past give your email address, it's pretty safe to hit unsubscribe/remove and they will honour your request (it usually takes a week or so for them to clean you out of their marketing database). I'd include Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, and the like in this list.
If it's from Bob's Online Drugs, don't go near it. The spammers will know from your remove request that your email addy is valid, and guess what? You'll get more!
There are several decent tools around for filtering spam:
- Gmail has a spam filter that has good reputation.
- Thunderbird, sort of an open source version of Outloook Express, has a good spam filter.
- Cactus has a great filter, and it's free. It takes a little training, but nothing an average PC-user can't handle.
These days many
There probably isn't a business person alive who hasn't at one time or another experienced total frustration along with an inability to resolve a difficult business situation via e-mail. Sometimes without giving it much thought an e-mail is sent in anger. But angry, rude communication is not the way to win your case. In fact, for the most part, people will turn away and won’t even hear what you’re saying.Catch More Flies With Honey Than Vinegar!I am in no way implying a Pollyanna attitude, for that is the furthest thing from my mind. What I am suggesting is that you still catch more flies with
If it's from a reputable retailer/business where you have in the past give your email address, it's pretty safe to hit unsubscribe/remove and they will honour your request (it usually takes a week or so for them to clean you out of their marketing database). I'd include Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, and the like in this list.
If it's from Bob's Online Drugs, don't go near it. The spammers will know from your remove request that your email addy is valid, and guess what? You'll get more!
There are several decent tools around for filtering spam:
- Gmail has a spam filter that has good reputation.
- Thunderbird, sort of an open source version of Outloook Express, has a good spam filter.
- Cactus has a great filter, and it's free. It takes a little training, but nothing an average PC-user can't handle.
These days many
Can the average person make money online? I am asked that all the time. My answer is a definitive yes. However, you have to have the knowledge to do so. The shot gun approach will fail miserably.There is a time tested method to making money that is successful over and over and over again. It is when a teacher takes an apprentice under his wing and becomes a mentor. First you tell them how to do it, then you show them how to do it, then you make them do it.This method is the only proven way to make money at real estate investing, online marketing, offline marketing, and sales, really whatever you ar
There are several decent tools around for filtering spam:
- Gmail has a spam filter that has good reputation.
- Thunderbird, sort of an open source version of Outloook Express, has a good spam filter.
- Cactus has a great filter, and it's free. It takes a little training, but nothing an average PC-user can't handle.
These days many ISPs and hosting companies are offering spam filters to their subscribers. These vary in quality from excellent (congrats to the boys at United Hosting U.K. for their hard work) to useless (but no names here).
Additionally, many ISPs are using blacklists (databases of suspected spammers) to filter out spam. These are well-intentioned but all that effective. It's easy to innocently get onto one of these lists, it isn't always obvious you are blacklisted, and it can be very difficult to get off, especially if the ISP is slow honouring requests from genuine hosing companies (Hotmail can take several weeks), and in the meantime you can find that a bunch of genuine mail goes missing.
Even the legislators take notice
Legislation is a nice idea but it ain't helping; how can we possibly get all countries to make sending spam illegal? Some countries have better things to do (like feed their people), than concern themselves about spam. Other countries don't care. (Russia was an example, although lately they seem to have improved.)
You've done your best to keep your true addy a secret (of course it defeats the purpose if no-one at all has it!), you've got some proactive strategies, some filters, and an unseen army fighting the spam war for you, but you know that what'll be waiting for you next time we open your inbox, so let's try to think imaginatively about this. Why do spammers send spam?
It's cheap! Ridiculously cheap to send 5, 10 or even 50 millions emails. The cost is creating the email/message, some nasty software to send out mass emails, a PC and an internet connection. Even so, cheap is expensive if it doesn't bring in a dollar, so why do they do it?
Here's why...
Because for every ten zillion spam emails they send out, some twit buys their crap! That's right, somewhere in internetland,
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