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Creating A New E-mail Address And Learning More About Using E-mail

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META: Whether you are communicating with your friends and family, or business associates, sending an email is a fast way of communicating with them, no matter where you are. When you form a new email address it is imperative that you know how to go about it. An electronic mail... [Read more...]

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PrePaid Legal Inc – A Legit Network Marketing Opportunity Or Another Scam?

PrePaid Legal Inc – A Legit Network Marketing Opportunity Or Another Scam?

PrePaid Legal Services Review PrePaid legal services Inc is a network marketing company that offers certain legal services to customers for a subscription fee. This article aims to explore the income opportunity offered by the MLM and see how profitable it is. The Service ... [Read more...]

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What Constitutes ‘Spam’ Emails?

What Constitutes ‘Spam’ Emails?

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Creating A New E-mail Address And Learning More About Using E-mail

META: Whether you are communicating with your friends and family, or business associates, sending an email is a fast way of communicating with them, no matter where you are. When you form a new email address it is imperative that you know how to go about it.

An electronic mail or e-mail as it is better known, is a method for individuals to communicate with each other via the internet. Mail is circulated across the Internet by SMPT or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It was actually launched in the 80’s but has received frequent modifications. It still stands however, to be the common standard used to date. The SMPT is programmed to identify an e-mail address and in case it is unable to do so, the sender is notified of the non-existence of the email address.

An e-mail is generally opened and read via an email client which is stored in a computer. You can gain access to your emails from your personal computer by simply logging on to the email client where you can check, receive, compose and send emails from. Web mail is a simpler option of sending emails; this is down to the fact that it is placed at a central point on the internet, can be accessed through a specific web application and is far easier to use. Assuming the computer you are using has internet connection and a browser facility, you can use the web mail service anywhere.

There are various web mail service providers that offer free email services but you could choose to select a paid-for service too. To exchange messages with one another through this medium whether it is paid or for free, what we first require is an email address. This email address like any postal address identifies the area where the message has to be delivered. You can send messages as well as receiving them from this address. Various servers and networks can easily identify a specific location as the email address displays this information.

Emails have an attribute that is common in all email addresses across the web. Email addresses all have a set format. See the example shown; susie@Yahoo.co.uk. The example shows your first name, followed by the ‘@’ (at) symbol, then the host name, which can be Google, Yahoo, Hotmail etc, and then lastly a three letter abbreviation which usually is co.uk. or com, or ac.uk .com, .gov, .edu, .com and so on. These features remain practically unchanged, making it easy for you to form an email address for yourself.

However there are certain limitations as to what you can do while creating an email address for yourself. It is more common for lower case letters to be used than upper case, but because it is not case sensitive upper charactes can be used. Users should be aware however, that this must not exceed sixty-five characters. You should be aware that if you start including other characters into the address, then this can make it very difficult to idenitfy. In this sense, it is advised not to use them. The symbol that separates the user and domain name apart is the ‘at’ symbol. Due to the fact you can only use letters, numbers and the hyphen symbol, the domain name is a bit more limited.

Having learnt the basics of how to create a new email account, you are now ready to start using your new email addresses to begin communicating with your family and friends.

February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

PrePaid Legal Inc – A Legit Network Marketing Opportunity Or Another Scam?

PrePaid Legal Services Review

PrePaid legal services Inc is a network marketing company that offers certain legal services to customers for a subscription fee. This article aims to explore the income opportunity offered by the MLM and see how profitable it is.

The Service

Legal insurance is as important as medical or life insurance. Everyone’s accountable to the law and we can never predict when we may need the services of a lawyer. Legal insurance is a means to minimize your legal expenses. As a member, you get free legal help for drawing wills, research work, real estate assistance, traffic issues and small trial work. Issues such as divorce, drugs related cases and major criminal problems are not covered, but members can use the services of a lawyer for such issues at a discounted rate.

The Pre Paid Legal Background Story

The idea for this venture was born in 1972 when its owner, Harland C Stonecipher got into a legal scuffle and had to cough up huge sums of money. He launched this company as an MLM venture to offer members legal help for a fixed monthly rate as well access to lawyers whenever they required. Now, Prepaid legal is established in 50 states and in Canada. In addition to legal insurance, the company also offers a monitoring system to prevent identity theft. 

Is PrePaid Legal Services A Legitimate Businss?

After a series of lawsuits against the company, many people started proclaiming this business to be a scam. However, this company’s definitely not fraudulent. With over 30 years of experience and the backing of shareholders, PrePaid Legal is a strong and legitimate establishment.

Old affiliates who couldn’t make money turned bitter and started complaining about the company and the MLM hierarchy. However, there are people who’ve made lots of money in this business. You earnings depend on how you market the service.  

Why Should You Join PrePaid Legal Business?

-    It’s easy to market legal insurance since it’s a new product to most people.
-    This is an MLM that pays well. Payment’s made as soon as forms are submitted.
-    The market for this service is receptive because of its usefulness.


Distributor Problems

This is not the kind of business that could be sold to customers by strictly following procedures of a typical MLM firm. To be frank, that could even land you in trouble. Most scam companies follow the same techniques of hosting parties, making irrefutable offers and calling people consistently till they relent.


Promoting Your PrePaid Legal Business

Find a way to promote this service well and you’ll be astounded at the rate of business that comes in. Instead of concentrating on people you know, reach out to the world outside by communicating to them about your product. The internet offers a host of avenues such as social networks and articles where you could promote your business effectively.

February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment


E-mail Marketing Books/Software

Poor Richards E mail Publishing

Poor Richards E mail Publishing




Say all you want about push technologies: plain old electronic mail works best. Everyone has it; everyone uses it; everyone likes it. Poor Richard’s E-Mail Publishing shows you how to create and grow communities around e-mail publications.

The book describes author Chris Pirillo’s experiences in building the Lockergnome newsletter and extrapolates nuggets of advice from them. In the process of sharing his accumulated wisdom, the book explains the technical (HTML formatting, mailing list software) and nontechnical (content selection, subscriber management) aspects of running a list. But the author doesn’t remain in the spotlight. Poor Richard’s E-Mail Publishing includes a series of chapters authored by leaders of other e-mail communities, including the Naked PC Newsletter, the LangaList, and This Is True.

The book doesn’t promise that your e-mail newsletter will make you rich–Pirillo opines that the medium isn’t yet mature enough to generate much more than a modest income for most publishers. However, he describes a medium on the verge of profitability and tells his readers how to give their lists maximum business appeal. He advises readers to make top-quality content their first priority, build brand names, and provide excellent customer service. Perhaps most important, the book explains the difference between spam and legitimate mass mailings: subscribers have absolute control over legitimate mailings, and their information is never used behind their backs.

In addition to the advice of newsletter publishers, the book provides appendices listing mailing-list software, list service providers, and e-publications worth a look. –David Wall

Topics covered: Why e-mail newsletters work, how to build mutually supporting Web sites and newsletters, configuring mass-mailing software, managing subscriptions, creating and collecting content, plain text and HTML formatting, list service providers, and advertising.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Um excelente livro
Excelente livro sobre o uso do e-mail para a divulga??o de informa??es pela Internet.

Livro de facil leitura, mostrando de forma clara e atrav?s de exemplos p?ticos e concretos a arte do uso do e-mail. Um dos melhores livros que ja li sobre o assunto, que tem 100% minha aprovacao e recomendacao

4 Stars The definitive guide to e-mail publishing
An interesting book. Chris Pirillo discusses publishing an e-mail newsletter, or e-zine. In fact, he covers it almost completely. The only problem I had with this book was the author’s incomplete and sometimes rambling discussion of configuring an e-mail account for your mailing list. I had to look elsewhere (online) to understand this. To his credit, it is difficult to understand.
Other than that, this book is a fabulous introduction to e-mail publishing and will give the reader many good ideas and tips on publishing online.

1 Star Don’t throw away your money
This is truly a terrible book - very thin on usable content. Further, the author, Chris Pirillo, writes like a high school “valley girl.” It is a prime example that the Internet allows anyone - despite how dumb they are - to venture, and in this case, publish their opinions. Don’t waste you money. And for the author, become a cheerleader!

5 Stars Don’t even try to start an email newsletter without it
You could spend months in the school of hard knocks learning what you need to know to publish an email newsletter….but why would you?!?

This book has the type of detailed up-to-the-second information that will save you a lot of trouble.

If you want to:

1)Save Time

2)Make Money

Get this book.

2 Stars Poor Rehash of Poor Richard Trash
This book was a poor excuse for a definitive guide. Poor Richard rehashes are…well….…kind of like Sam’s Publishing IT books being definitive guides on how to fix a network in 10 days.

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September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment