Bulk Email Software by Kent Pinkerton
Marketing products and services over the Internet has become the norm of any enterprising and rapidly growing companies. Bulk emailing has become a necessary tool to facilitate sales generation and customer relations at the least cost possible. If you are considering bulk email marketing, there... There is other complementary software that will complete your bulk email marketing strategy. ... The main item to keep in mind when investing in bulk email software is flexibility. ... You should be able to adjust the settings to your own specifications whenever you need, and not be locked into a...

How You Can Take Control Of Your Inbox by Gabriel J. Adams
As you navigate the ins and outs of your Inbox, unsolicited emails and irritating viruses disguised as attachments may plague your Internet correspondences. To ensure the safety of emails you receive, as well as make sure your Inbox doesn’t become a cluttered mess, a few suggestions on how to... Most email systems provide this option and once clicked, all Unread emails appear in order for you to view or delete. ... Many email systems allow their users to choose a color scheme for their Inbox. ... You may add Vacation responses that instantly alert those who send an email that you are away.

7 Ways To Tell If Your Business Has Outgrown Microsoft Outlook by Jeffrey Alexander Brathwaite
Here’s a question for you. What did you use to send email before there was a program called Microsoft Outlook? I for one used a program called Eudora for windows. Not that many people know about Eudora but it was once the best email clients there was on the market way back in 1996. ... Email Campaign Reporting If you have no idea if the people you send email too even receive or even opened the email message then you may have outgrown Microsoft Outlook. ... Microsoft Outlook has many strengths as an email client, calendar and task manager but it will not do some things that are almost...

A Java Developer's Guide to Web Hosting by David Heffelfinger
You make a living writing enterprise java applications, and you would like to work on your own projects for fun or profit, you would like to create your own web site or you would like to have a place to host your open source project. You look around for hosting providers, and all you see is PHP... Shared hosting plans tend to have "user friendly" (dumbed down?) interfaces, which might simplify administration, but can also severely limit what you are able to do, for example, let's say a shared hosting company gives you 300 megabytes of disk space to host your web site, and an additional 300...

Is a Niche Web Hosting Service for You? by Steve Ashton
Aside from the big name web hosting providers, there are many smaller, niche-oriented web hosting companies. Could these be a better deal, or provide better service for your highly targeted site than a general web host? First it’s important to understand what a niche web host is. ... Types of Web Hosting • Email Hosting – These are targeting businesses who want their email saved to a different server than their web site, so if the site goes down, they can still access email. ... The Cost of Niche Web Hosting While you may think many niche web hosts would provide their services at...

Local Vs Remote Data Backup - The Pros And Cons by Niall Roche
Backing up your data should be an essential part of your daily routine. Unfortunately for many businesses this simply isn't the case. The only time data backup crosses their mind is when they have a hard disk crash or a serious spyware or virus infection. ... That's not to say that bulk data such as archived email is not important but that old data could be recovered in time by a data recovery specialist whereas you mission critical data needs to be available at a moments notice. ... If money is an issue then store your bulk data locally but copy your mission critical data to the remote...

How to Make a CSV File for Your Mailing List by Bill Boyd
First lets look at WHAT it is, and Why would we want to make one? CSV means Comma Separated Value, so that means; a ‘value’ that is separated by commas. It is usually made in XL or a txt file. A ‘value’ is explained, in context below. CSV files are the most common kind of format used by most... This means that if we want to put several hundred names and addresses (values) into a “bulk mailing program” we can usually use a CSV file. ... Before we continue please note: It is often necessary to have these values in our CSV file in a particular order for example; some software, will require...

Smart-Ass Series #2: Be the One That Got Away From the Phishers (Spammers) by Roxanne McDonald
Christmas is here: for those of us with any sense of ethics, this typically means good food, good friends, good music, lots of awe-inspiring lights. But for the greedy, unethical, opportunistic folks—those who behave malevolently year round—it means coming up with more ways to phish, to look for... Who in the hell would email themselves a notification for a bounced email?); mailer daemon pseudonyms; officious looking account # or order # subjects flooded your box—as if you had spent a lot of money and time signing up for and ordering massive amounts of product, you rich and busy thing, you!

Time to Say Goodbye to Submission Software? by Paul Fisher
It’s generally agreed in SEM circles that search engine submission is dead, or at least mass-submission is dead. Firstly, there are only a handful of engines left that are real traffic generators and, secondly, this handful would prefer to find your site than have it forced down their neck. ... Thousands of email complaints and plummeting sales prompted them to restore the submission feature with haste. ... Dynamic Submission,for instance, has beefed up its paid submission and is now really just part of the Dynamic Promotion Suite.

Floppies-The Portables of the Past - YRU Still Using Floppies? by Jack Wilson
Floppy disks have been in use for decades and have served us well. They can hold 1.44 megabytes of information and are more or less infinitely re-writeable. (Till they inexplicably de-format themselves just when you need them most). New computers today are usually sold without floppy drives. ... If you buy them on sale in bulk you can pay less than 20 cents apiece. ... If nothing else you can email yourself the data and have it sitting there when you want to retrieve it. ... Nifty for small needs and can even be sent by surface mail (I refuse to say “snail mail”) if you are too dumb...