Internet Users Hbk - Chapter 11b Managing Your ONLINE Business

Time is a precious commodity, especially if you are starting your online business part-time. Use it wisely and productively

Just like the job offline, some of your associates just to love to mingle and talk, Great for building relationships, but is the relationship productive, will it add to your financial bottom-line.

Chats are also a great diversion and relaxing, but can eat up your time and take your away from your objectives

Skype is probably one of the best online VOIP solution offering message, telephone and video. Great to for building relationship, directly answering questions and perhaps training with your sponsor or downline. I use it sparingly and don’t leave it on. If one, you keep getting popup for so and so ins online.

I should have been paying more attention to this chapter as I will discuss later. Managing your email is a large part of managing your business after you have everything setup.

What to do when email that you want keeps showing up in your junk mail, instead of your regular mail folders? We have spent some time talking about scams and spam mails, but when you are in business you need your mail, when you are sending mail, you want it to get to the other party.

What is Whitelisting? How do you dispose of the spam or junk mail that is overloading your junk mailbox and inbox?

Why are most sites now recommending the use of Gmail; its advantage and disadvantages?

A Whitelist is a list of e-mail addresses or domain names from which an e-mail blocking program will allow messages to be received. E-mail blocking programs, also called a spam filters, are intended to prevent most unsolicited e-mail messages (spam) from appearing in subscriber inboxes. But these programs are not perfect. Cleverly crafted spam gets through, and a few desired messages are blocked.

Most Internet users can tolerate the occasional unsolicited e-mail advertisement that a spam filter misses, but are concerned by the thought that an important message might not be received. The whitelist option is a solution to the latter problem. The list can be gradually compiled over a period of time, and can be edited whenever the user wants.

Some spam filters delete suspected junk e-mail messages straightaway, but others allow the user to place them in a quarantined inbox. Periodically, the quarantined messages are observed to see if any of them are legitimate messages. This option is used by some Web-based e-mail clients in place of, or in addition to, a whitelist.

The Terms and Conditions of most traffic sites state that you must “Whitelist” their email when you join their site.

In other cases, some information or emails that you want to receive may wind up in your junk mail; Whitelisting, or Safelisting is a method of identifying and ensuring that you receive the mail that you want.

All this self-policing for spam is great, but affects us as well as the spammers. More and more sites, especially free Traffic sites with their volumes of advertiser’s email that they out only to have it blocked or sent to junk mail. Many sites now post the following message or otherwise complain about their problems with Yahoo mail getting through to their customers.

Please open a gmail.com account to sign up as more ISP's are bouncing Ads.

If you use other than Gmail, then see your email provider for Whitelisting instructions.

GMAIL

From your junk mail folder, click the email and click the “NOT SPAM” tab.

To have future emails from the same originator go directly to your INBOX, click the email and go to the “MORE” Tab.

This will bring an up a drop-down menu, Select “FILTER MESSAGES LIKE THIS”.

A new screen will show your selected email and others from the same source.

Click “NEXT STEP” which will bring up the CREATE FILER screen.

Select “NEVER SEND IT TO SPAM” You can apply of all message if there are any.

Finish by clicking CREATE FILER”

A Blackhole list, sometimes simply referred to as a blacklist, is the publication of a group of ISP addresses known to be sources of spam, a type of e-mail more formally known as unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE).

The goal of a blackhole list is to provide a list of IP addresses that a network can use to filter out undesirable traffic. After filtering, traffic coming or going to an IP address on the list simply disappears, as if it were swallowed by an astronomical black hole. The Mail Abuse Prevention System Real-time Blackhole List, which has over 3000 entries, is one of the most popular blackhole lists.

Benefits

Gmail is FREE and you can open multiple accounts. Many list builders require that you have at least two accounts, one for admin type mail and one for advertising mail. Go to Gmail.com. All of your Gmail accounts can easily be imported into Outlook. Gmail will retain all of your email, BUT see disadvantages

Disadvantages

You cannot do sorts, and search results seem to vary from the messages in Gmail from those imported in Outlook. You cannot query junk mail. I prefer the features offered by Microsoft Outlook at this time. However that are some other good ones, try a Google search for your choices.

My Two Big Mistakes

You really receive very little admin mail except, perhaps, for a promos code, your login, etc. So put all of this site mail into your list account. Once in your primary or admin email account, you have to load the login page and reset your email account to your list account. Slow and Painful, but necessary. Try to keep your Primary account clear of unnecessary ads.

Great idea; get a list account so you can keep your primary account free and clear. However, your list account fills up with emails that need to be read or dumped. My mistake, dumpling let’s say all the solo ads.

Doing this puts them in Trash which also must be dumped. Google says it dumps all trash over 30 days old, it my case something went wrong and I wound up with over 600,000 emails.

Google cannot handle such volume so when you try to clear your trash, you receive a variety of (seemingly random) error codes and retrying until finally it locks up your account with a 502 error which temporarily shuts own your list account. As a result of the shutdown, your mail bounces while the account is locked.

Further to this, if you do a search in trash for just one account to try and delete all mail from that account, Google will find the result, but they cannot be deleted. For example, we want to try to delete all ads for “safelister”. You search for safelister in your trash and then select all for delete, once again you receive a variety of (seemingly random) error codes. But instead of locking up your account with a 502 error, the process ends with all “all messages have been moved to trash” – which is where you started.

The Google Team mail-support@google.com

Important, yes mainly because it was sent directly to you. Our engineers have been working hard to make improvements to Gmail, including the issue you described. Please only respond to this message if you are continuing to experience further difficulties.

I have to admit, it is getting tough even for the Good Guys to get email through the spam blockers. We introduce Spam and spam blockers her, but see the next chapter for more detail. You will quickly note from the following that almost everyone knowingly or unknowingly violates some aspect of the spam guidelines.

For example, look at one of my advertising programs: BuzzBee Advertising email guidelines:

You can use this tag: ~fname~ to call up the member’s first name in the email.

To keep emails from bouncing, please cloak your URL with a service like tinyURL.com or lil-URL.com. The reason for this is many of the URLs being promoted are often BLACKLISTED by many ISPs. Please comply with this request.

We take SPAM very seriously, if we receive a complaint, we will follow through, and the member whom is spamming will be deleted and banned permanently.

No HTML please. No adult, offensive or illegal ads

The Spam Hunter 1.0 program

COPY AND PASTE A MAIL YOU WOULD NORMALLY SEND OUT ON OTHER SITES. You will notice under the subject and the body that it will tell you words or phrases in your mail that should not be there. These are words that you need to change to keep mails getting through.

NOTE: AFTER YOU ADD YOUR MAIL JUST CLICK OUTSIDE THE EDIT BOX TO PUT THE SPAM HUNTER TO WORK. YOU WILL NOT SEE THE SEND BUTTON UNTIL YOUR MAIL IS FREE OF SPAM WORDS AND PHRASES AND YOU CLICK OUTSIDE THE TEXT BOX.

Yes it is a bit more work but when you compare the numbers you will see far more clicks and that means more mails getting through.

When you click your mouse outside the edit boxes the hunter goes to work. The Following are spam words you are not to use if we find you are trying to get around it by adding dots and dashes we will delete your mail and risk losing your account.

You are not to discuss ANYTHING to do with making money in your mails. Leave that to the site to sell for you. Your job is simply to get people to click your links. Buzz Bee

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