Three Concerns about E-Newsletters
OK, I just posted five reasons you SHOULD have an e-newsletter, now let’s look at three things you need to take into account as you start writing your e-newsletters: Junk Email filters. There is a lot of email out there. And a lot of that email is automatically generated junk that you don’t want to […]
Outlook Follow Up
A couple of months ago I wrote about the overwhelming feeling I had every day when my inbox was over-stuffed. I was pushing 2000 messages just in my inbox – and I was doing a lot of filing of messages then. Well I am happy to report that I have stuck with the program. Back […]
An Email Address By Any Other Letter
Shakespeare may have said that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but who would have imagined that email address starting with any other letter would get less spam? Say what? A researcher in England discovered that, for real email addresses, those beginning with less common letters receive less spam. So that […]
Managing your Information
I seem to remember a song with the lyrics “take time to make time”. I invite you to take a little time now to create extra time for yourself. I wrote previously about how SPAM is taking over our inboxes. There are a few concrete steps you can follow to take back your inbox and […]
Unwanted Email
According to Postini (http://www.postini.com/news_events/pr/pr011007.php), the amount of spam we get in our inboxes is continuing to rise and is in fact rising dramatically. The question I often get is “Why”? Why would anyone want to do this and who, if anyone benefits? The question has several answers. One is the “Technology anarchists” who delight in […]