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Email Marketing is the Way to Go

Email marketing is a great way to keep customers interested and even draw in new business. Contrary to what some people may think, it really isn’t that hard to do either. You might wonder how to get started. Well, the great thing about your website is that you can unobtrusively place an email capture somewhere on you main page. Ask users to sign up for your newsletter. You might be surprised how many people give you their email address even though they don’t actually buy anything ... read more!

Aug 27, 2010 3:23pm by Jeff Nicholson

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Alternative to sending large files over email

Have you ever needed to send a large zip file or image file over email to someone? Then you know how much of a pain it can be with various email servers blocking large attachments and download wait times. You could wait all that time for the email to finish sending to only to discover that it was blocked. There are a lot of people who do not realize there is a much easier way to send this bigger files. You just have the file uploaded to your website and instead of sending the file as an attachme... read more!

Apr 19, 2010 1:07pm by

Mike Vandenberghe

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Thunderbird delete bypass trash

Nifty trick, in thunderbird when you want to delete an email and skip sending it to trash. Do a shift-delete ( hold down shift then hit delete key ). This will skip the trash and purge that email right away. Be careful though, this does clear it out immediately, be cautious not to delete anything you don't want deleted. ... read more!

Feb 03, 2010 10:48am by

Mike Vandenberghe

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How to Whitelist Emails

I recently pulled some information from websites that had done some research on various email clients and ISPs to determine how to instruct users the best way to whitelist emails. Many websites these days allow users to fill out forms. Once the form is submitted, the form submitter receives an automatically generated email confirming their registration, form receipt, etc. How many of these users however do not receive the email because their email account has spam filters that lock out the sende... read more!

Sep 09, 2008 11:03am by

Shad Vick

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RBL - Blacklisted by Comcast

We have just been blacklisted by comcast even though we run a very clean email server. I have filled out the Comcast blacklist removal form and am waiting a reply. Just posting here to see if other server admins just recently had problems with Comcast blacklisting. We only host accounts we are familiar with. Here is my form submission to comast: We have a shared hosting server with only clients. We do not provide hosting to companies other then our own clients. For some reason we have been b... read more!

Dec 27, 2007 12:48pm by