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Gmail, being one of the better email sites out there, has outdone themselves again by creating a new feature for their users: SMS messaging

How often do you try to chat with somebody and they don’t respond because they just walked away from their computer? Or maybe you’re in the middle of chatting with them just as they need to leave. But you still need to tell them something — something really important like you’ve moved where you’re meeting…or ice cream! We need ice cream! This is why we built a way to chat with your friends even when they’re away from their computers. Now you can keep the conversations going with a new Labs feature that lets you send SMS text messages right from Gmail. It combines the best parts of IM and texting: you chat from the comfort of your computer, and your friends can peck out replies on their little keyboards.

This is only available in US for now, hopefully they will implement this globally soon.

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A report indicated that only ONE in 12.5 million junk mails usually end up as a SALE. But while this is relatively a small percentage, spammers make a lot of money out of annoying other people with their junk mails. Recently, researches have hacked themselves into a network of zombie PCs, actually controlled by the hackers, the network is called the ‘Storm’. Their intention was to keep track of the actual users that respond to the spam sent through emails and to monitor how much that particular campaign makes. They spent twenty six days attracting the infected pc’s users to a hoax pharmacy that promises to sell them fully guaranteed libido enhancer. The researchers sent a staggering 350 million messages. But they only got 28 response that was translated into a SALE. Overall, when they did the math, they came with $2 million a year stolen money from just about a million PCs at a given time.

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It is quite a habit of web users like us to post our full email addresses on communities and forums, on social networks, blogs and websites. In the long run, you become the target of mail spams. These spammers send loads of junk mail to your Inbox.

Heres a list of ways to mask your email address.
Hiding your email address by spelling it out. This is an effective but comon way and is widely used in public spaces like forums or comments sections. Using forms on the website. This proves to be the most popular and effective way for your guests to contact you.
Creating an image with your email address, posting it any place you want.
Use a disposable email address rather than giving out your work email address.
Using Javascript and CSS as a method to hide the email address.

These may not be fool proof but it offers you better ways to avoid annoying and often destructive mail spammers.

Emails are the number one targets for hackers, phishers, viruses, worms. By simply having your computer online, your data and personal information are instantly exposed to all kinds of malicious applications. Being new to the internet poses risks to your computer’s safety. These are ways to help protect you from identity theft, fraud and a computer takeover, all of which happens without you, knowing it.

1. Check your Inbox. Some e-mails or spam contain dangerous code that could infect your computer at a touch of a button.

2. Look for Unknown Messages and dont even open it. Contact the company that claims to be sending the e-mail and verify the said email.

3. Even if it comes form a friend, do not open attachments right away. You can opt to call or text them if they really sent you the message.

4. Read Your Messages in Plain Text.? Some e-mails written in HTML can be harmless. Others are not. To be safe, try setting your e-mail program to show messages in plain text format. This will prevent threatening code from installing itself.

5. One of the best way to rid of these hackers is to use your common sense. You know when you are being fooled by these scammers.

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In your email marketing campaign, be certain that all aspects of your business are in sync with your email campaign. In other words, is customer service ready to field questions? Do sales have the inventory to meet your customer’s needs? There’s no point in sending out an email extolling the virtues of a new product if people can’t order it or answer questions. Just be sure that all systems are a-go before you send out that email. Otherwise, your attempts at furthering a reputation of being a reliable and sophisticated business will instantly be thwarted.

What this has meant is that the seller has the perfect chance to build up a relationship with the prospect. This in turn will open up many other chances in future for making sales. This works out much best and much more effectively as an email marketing campaign than the one-off hit or miss effort.

As long as you have carefully targeted those that you sign up in your opt in email list, then all you have to do is keep on feeding them interesting information on their area of interest. This is the best and most effective email marketing campaign because whatever relevant offer you put in front of them via your emails will be viewed as interesting information.

I have had a lot of these phishing emails lately and it is really irritating. In summary, there is no such thing as an instant millionaire especially if you have not signed up or joined any contest. Further, inheritance is impossible considering how can you have people on the web who don’t even know where you live or what your phone number is?

Be wary of these people. They are getting your personal information and using them for malicious deeds. Your privacy may be in jeopardy and if you are not careful, you may be in for a lot of trouble.

Whenever you open your email, you are sure to find some messages with attachments coming from an unknown person. If you are wise, simple delete it and don’t even bother to think about what it was. Chances are it will be a virus and for sure, you just did yourself a big favor by not downloading and opening it.

These are email problems you will run into. There are a lot of innocent email users out there and a lot of mischievous people as well. They prey on making lives miserable. Don’t be among them and live the conservative route.

Email lists advance the traditional one-on-one email interaction a step further through disseminating a single message simultaneously to a group of people in your contacts. Typically, email lists are configured for use wither as one-way announcement lists or discussion lists but the only difference is, the list owner alone or editor can write to a one-way list with every list member writing to a discussion list. When an email list o made, the email address is used to post messages to the list. Once a message is sent, it is delivered to the central server when email list management software is located. The software then automatically distributes the email message to all subscribers in the list. You can subscribe and unsubscribe anytime as well as list modifications. The email list management software updates the list records automatically and sends an email confirmation to those who requested the modification.

An industry expert describes subject line as the most significant sentence in a business’ email marketing strategy because the line can be used to attract and engage potential customers. It is where the user decides to either open the message or trash it. And to boost response rates, personalizing email marketing should be considered. Messages that are sent to clients should also be consistent in their use of company logos and offers. A company’s message should extend all the way through from your email to the sign up page and to that special landing page you have created for the event, product or purpose and promotion of what you are sending through email.