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Are You A Spam
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Do you fight for justice on
the internet? Do you envision a future online where
every man, woman, and child can access their email without
being fear of being assaulted by spam emails in their
inboxes? Do you report each piece of spam you get in
order to do your part in the fight against this oppressive
beast? That's very noble. I think most people do
it.
Originally, when I was only
receiving a few emails a day, I reported every piece of
email that appeared to be spam with a vengeance. Now,
I receive anywhere between 150 to 200 spam emails per day
and frankly, I just don't have the time to report every
single one. That's a half an hour reporting spam that
we could use to do other more productive things.
Don't get me wrong.
Reporting spam is a good thing to do but I've had my hotmail
account now for 10 years as of this year and the amount of
spam has not decreased since I first opened the account.
So I ask myself why would I invest the time to report them,
waste a half hour of my own time to do it only to see that
nothing seems to have changed in the last 10 years?
While taking an offensive
stand against email may seem like the right thing to do,
it's not necessarily the best use of your time.
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Plus, many people do not
correctly identify "true" spam versus "accidental" spam.
The junk mail folder was invented with the idea of funneling
spam into an isolated folder never to be seen. With a
single mouse click you can report the entire folder as spam
and in some cases if you do nothing to pull items from the
spam/junk folder the contents are automatically marked as
spam. Very convenient...until you start losing
invoices for products you paid for on Ebay, important
messages from your mother that your cat is gravely ill, the
party invitation on Friday night that everyone who's anyone
is going to be at.
The point is that not
everything is spam and once you erect an aggressive defense
against spam, you stand a good chance of blocking "real"
email from reaching you and that could cost you dollars if
you are a business owner.
Most popular email clients
will have some way to custom-filter your email depending on
certain criteria. (E.g. place any emails from
thisperson@thisdomain.com into the folder "somefolder")
Set filters for known common spam emails, and filter emails
that you know to be spam. For a good article on how to
do this with Outlook,
click here.
This way you know before hand
what is being filtered and you remain in control of what you
see and what you don't see and that is really empowering
yourself in the fight against spam.
This week's FREE Digest is
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spam the meat...ok, well not spam the meat. But you
get the picture.
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Good Spam
or Bad Spam...What is the Difference?
By Sara Hardy
"Are you Good Spam or Bad Spam?"- This is the question I
find echoing in my head sometimes when I am going through my
email, as if it is part of some electronic Wizard of Oz.
Have you ever given any thought to the fact that there
really is a difference in spam? Not that I am defending
anyone, but let me make my point and then you can decide for
yourself.
Spam is such a hot issue and no one knows the "right" view
of spam that fits everyone.
You either:
- will take all measures to prevent people from sending it
to you
- don't mind it at all and happily delete, delete, delete
every day
- OR hate it sometimes and ignore it other times.
I think I fall in the last category, which is what started
me thinking about good and bad spam. My point of view has
now developed into this:
BAD Spam-
It is bad spam when you reply to it to be removed and it is
returned to you because the address is made up. It is bad
spam when the removal link does not open a real url. It is
bad spam when you paste the message source into Spam Cop and
the info you get back before clicking the "Send spam report"
shows tons of dead ends and made up domains, etc.
This means that this "Cowardly Lion" harvested your address,
and went to great lengths to cover their tracks in order not
to get caught sending spam.
GOOD Spam-
It is good spam when there is an actual person on the other
end, apologizing for inconveniencing you. What made it good
spam? Because here is spam that you most likely will not get
again, because it is more legit then the bad spam. These
people are not out to break any rules, upset anyone, or ruin
your day. 9 times out of 10 they really don't know any
better and will learn, very quickly I might add.
Also, keep in mind that the Scarecrow in us does not ALWAYS
remember every email we sign up for. It is possible to have
signed up for something and a week later be flipping out
because you are getting email from some unknown. If we only
had a brain sometimes (Speaking for myself, of course).
It is also highly possible that someone is having fun
subscribing you to things. Never count that one out, it
happens all of the time.
GOOD vs BAD
Personally, I would much rather get good spam. Bad spam
demonstrates that the sender KNOWS what is not acceptable
and went to all of this trouble and expense to hide behind
this long trail of fake addresses. That they took the time
to do that is malicious, in my way of thinking. Do they
really think that what they are trying to sell in this
manner is actually worth it? These are the people we should
be upset with. These are the people that we need to be
telling, "I'll get you my pretty, and your little server
too!"
So, whether you agree or disagree, just try to keep in mind
that
1. The whole world is not out to get you.
2. Not every piece of spam is sent with the same intent.
And...
3. As the world around us continues to change, we will be
seeing more and more companies resorting to sending their
junk mail through email rather then the post office. (I
think this is becoming a more desirable thing to us all, as
it would be much safer.)
Now is the time to try to adjust our view and approach the
issue with a level head. If we don't we will drive ourselves
mad, and for what purpose?
The changes in our world cause the internet to change. Soon
you probably will find yourself saying, "I don't think we're
in Kansas anymore".
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Written by Sara Hardy
Owner of MarketingTrendz, and Publisher of
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How To Avoid Having Filters Eat Your
Emails
Copyright 2004 by Willie Crawford
You've probably read 1000 times that "the money's in the list."
If you're an Internet or email marketer, that's only partly true.
The truth is that the money is in properly written emails,
that get delivered to your list members. That last part is
what most online marketers are missing!
An article in the June 2004 issue of Time Magazine reported
that 40% to 70% of email sent to the four major ISPs is
deleted at the server. Those ISPs are MSN (including Hotmail),
Yahoo, Earthlink and AOL. That simply means that there's a
very good chance that your legitimate email is not getting
through to those subscribers using those ISPs.
The bottom line for you and I as email marketers is that
building huge opt-in lists, seeking JVs, or publishing an ezine
is largely futile, unless you correct the above problem first.
So how do you correct the problem? Many people who send
emails know that many ISPs score emails as they arrive at the
server. Email that scores above a certain score is identified as
probable spam, and is deleted. So, many of us go through
our email messages before sending them out and delete or
modify trigger words.
I'll let you in on a big secret. Most of the words that you see
cleverly disguised (often with extra spaces or characters) aren't
what causes most of the problem. It's combinations of words
that causes the problem. It's those combinations of words and
a few other major mistakes that gets your email killed.
To find out what those major mistakes are, you can get a free
report called "The 21 Deadliest Spam Filter Violations" here:
http://myQuickPayPro.com/qpp.cgi?adminid=3054&id=91007
The typical ezine that I see makes over half of these mistakes
every issue. Does yours?
There are two major things that you can do to avoid having
your emails "eaten" by the filters.
The first one is to have your list members "white list" you
or add you to their address book when they first subscribe.
Right on your confirmation page, instruct them to add your from
email address to their address book or to their approved list.
How they do this is different for each ISP. Generally adding
the from name and/or email address to their address book or
approved list will do the trick. Also tell them to periodically
look through their junk email folder to confirm that your email
is getting through. If they want what you're sending them,
they will do this. Often moving an email into the inbox will
cause the system to stop filtering your email too.
You can also tell new list members to do this in the confirmation
email, but that's a little late, since they may never get that
email.
The second thing you can do is run every email that you plan
on broadcasting (or even some personal emails) through a
system that scores the email. Email above some magic score
(around 5 at many ISPs) is guaranteed to be deleted.
There are a lot of tools for scoring your emails. The one that I
prefer is called E-filtrate. You can check it out at:
http://myQuickPayPro.com/qpp.cgi?adminid=3054&id=91007
which is where you can also get the report mentioned above.
What I like about E-filtrate is that it's a browser-based system
that allows you to score an email, suggests 3-7 substitutes for
each trigger word (that you can make right within the program),
and even allows you to do test sends to confirm that your email
will get through.
The system also allows you to check to see if your domain/IP
is blacklisted. If your domain is blacklisted, then all email
from that domain is blocked by certain ISPs. So you could
have a "perfect" email, and it could still not get through. The
solution there is to get the domain de-listed or to send from a
different domain.
Once you have a reliable system in place for "quality
controlling" your email communications, *then* you're ready
to put your list building on steroids. Then you're ready to set
up all kinds of joint ventures, and benefit from that huge,
responsive list.
Implement the simple steps outlined above today and you'll be
pleasantly surprised. Something this simple can multiply your
profits many times over. It can actually be the one thing that
turns a struggling business into a major success ;-)
Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author,
seminar speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host,
retired military officer, karate black belt, network marketing
trainer, and lifetime student of marketing. He shows people
how to actually generate substantial income on-line using
very simple SYSTEMS. An example of such a system can
be studied and duplicated at:
http://ProfitMagician.com
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