Knowing Which Business Email Account To Choose
Having a business email account is a necessity these days in any sector. One of the most low cost methods of marketing and advertising is through emails. It helps if you have an impressive, professional one. It is good promotion. It will help your customers and potential customers remember you more easily. This is different from personal email in many ways. Several firms have raked in profits just using email-marketing strategies. Thus, having a unique address will certainly expand and improve business. These are just a few of the many advantages of possessing one of these special accounts.
Advantages
The advantages are more numerous than using personal email accounts to deal with business matters. When a free account is used for a business, it is usually not unique and can be easily forgotten. There is also the risk of several merchants canceling orders because the majority of Internet fraud is associated with mass marketing emails from free service providers. These free services are constantly under threat of virus attacks. Electronic spamming is common with a free email account and as a result many addresses are accidentally black listed when people block certain domains. Some of the accounts may expire if they are not used regularly which will not happen if you use a paid one.
It is always better to go in for a paid service, as it has a lot more storage space, has a lot more features than personal mail, and has better and more powerful anti-virus and anti-Spam protections. They usually offer unique domain names. Several accounts are offered for one domain registration. The services cost around $10 to $50 a month. These accounts are more personal. One can select a unique business email address as well as a domain name. They offer generous disk space and are guaranteed ad free. This way clients and business associates will immediately know that the email was from your company, as they will recognize your business name which is one of the advantages of a business email account. Thus, the risk of being black listed is also less if you have a unique account.
One of the best advantages is that they are a very simple, yet powerful means of advertising your business. Permission based email marketing is one of the most cost effective, productive forms of marketing, which can reach millions of potential customers.
Additional Help
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David Gass is President of Business Credit Services, Inc. His company publishes a free weekly e-newsletter on Small Business Consulting at their web site http://www.smallbusinessconsulting.com
Yahoo Mail has a Serious Bug but the Solution is Discovered
In a previous article I railed against Yahoo Mail for a serious bug in their new e-mail address validation process. Well thanks to the publicity created by my rant I learned how to fix the problem. First I want to send a thank you out to Jasmine for informing me of the solution. It’s a wonderful thing when someone takes time out of their busy day to help someone.
There exists and intermittent problem in Yahoo Mail when adding a new e-mail to your Managed Addresses. For those of us that have switch to using Yahoo Mail as our primary mail client this is an extremely important feature. Without it, you can’t add e-mail account where you can check or create e-mails from. Essentially making Yahoo Mail useless as a e-mail client. I suffered with this problem for months. I wrote the predecessor to this article mainly to slam Yahoo. I was angry I was about to start the process of finding and switching e-mail clients again. From that article I got an e-mail from Jasmine that showed me how to solve the problem. I hope you find this article before going through the trouble I did. Here is how to solve the Yahoo Address Confirmation Code problem.
For starters, you can’t solve the problem in Yahoo Mail.
1.You must first go to your main account settings page.
There are a number of ways to get there. From Yahoo Mail or My Yahoo there is a My Account link at the top of the page.
2.In the section Member Information there is a link Edit it is out to the right of Member Information, click this link. Note, there is a link Edit your marketing preferences, but this is not the correct one.
3.Under Email Information, you need to remove at least one e-mail address and you need to have the total number of e-mails listed here under 5. This will reset the confirmation codes.
4.Now go back to Yahoo Mail and add the new e-mail address normally. The confirmation system will work now.
I have since added multiple e-mail accounts without problems. I do fear the problem coming back and having to re-add multiple accounts. We can only hope that Yahoo fixes this bug soon. Unfortunately, They’re probably too busy on the new beta version to fix existing problems.
All the normal Yahoo Mail restrictions are still in place. This process just resets the confirmation codes.
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The Marketing Advantage to Using a Double Opt In Mailing List
The most valuable commodity on the Internet is privacy. People are becoming wary when signing up for a mailing list, as there always seems to be a flood of spam after signing up for an email list. A double opt in may be the solution, as it prevents a third party from signing people up for newsletters. It also prevents spam robots from harvesting valuable information from a web site.
There is some confusion between confirmed opt in and double opt in. When a person signs up for a mailing list, they will receive a confirmation email, and in a confirmed opt in the email informs the new subscriber that they have joined the list. The double opt in system includes a link in the email, so if the new subscriber does not follow the link then their subscription is cancelled. Both methods verify the email address is valid.
Most web marketers feel that it is a burden on the new subscriber to ask for them to follow the link and complete the subscription process. I have found no studies, but the general belief is that some subscribers are lost because they fail to complete the subscription process.
This can be a bonus for large mailing lists: as it keeps the mailing list to a manageable level, saving bandwidth. If the mailing list is hosted through a service, then it is a financially sound decision to make sure that each subscriber is worth the fee charged by the service.
One method of keeping the double opt in process as painless as possible is to offer a free bonus to people who continue the sign up process.
Web masters who favor the double opt in method often claim that they are not loosing subscribers. Instead, they are not paying for subscribers who will just delete the newsletter as soon as it arrives in their inbox.
Many people are of the opinion that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. A mailing list is a marketing tool, and a good mailing list offers a glimpse into the web sites target audience. It helps the web master narrow their niche, improving the relevance, which improves the web sites ROI. A mailing list with a narrow target audience lets the web master target the exact needs of the web sites users. Web marketers understand this. That is why most double opt in lists command higher advertising rates.
There are many effective ways to build an opt in mailing list. So some research and decide what is the best approach for your marketing plan.
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Yahoo Mail has a Serious Bug
Yahoo Mail or Y-Mail, Yahoo’s web based e-mail client has a serious bug. Their e-mail confirmation system is not working!
One of the most critical features of any e-mail client is the ability to add new e-mail addresses. Most serious Internet users have multiple e-mail addresses. If you want to use a single e-mail client you need to be able to setup all your addresses in one spot. Yahoo requires you to validate that the e-mail address you attempting to add is actually yours. That is a good thing. If they didn’t do this spammers and criminals alike could do serious harm. Yahoo’s method of validating a new e-mail address is to send a code to that address and ask the receiver to validate the code on another site. In the validation message there is a link that brings you strait to the validation page with the code filled out. The validation code is also displayed and you can enter it manually from where you sent the verification message if you left that page open. Regardless of the method you use you will get the same error telling you there was a problem with the code. Once this problem appears it doesn’t go away. I’ve tried dozens of different e-mail addresses from several different domains that I own and the results are the same. It does no good to resend the validation message. Starting from scratch doesn’t help either because Yahoo keeps sending the same validation code.
Personally, I’m in a mess. I’ve committed to Yahoo Mail as my primary client. It will be very time consuming to change. Before I can change I’ll have to spend weeks evaluating online e-mail clients to make sure the one I choose has the features I need and want. Yahoo Mail was by far the best choice for me at the time I switched and obviously did not know about this serious bug. I hope you learn about this problem before making the leap like I did.
One more important note. I would not be writing this negative review if it was in someway possible to contact Yahoo Support and get someone to fix this problem. I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even know about it. This bug has existed for months. I’ve had contact with others that have experienced the problem. E-mails to support @ yahoo have resulting in nothing. Questions on Yahoo Answers have gone ignored except for some obnoxious teens. This is particularly frustrating because I pay to use Yahoo as my e-mail client, and I believe that if you pay for a service there should be a human somewhere in the process that can fix problems.
Please let me know if you know of a work around to this Yahoo Bug, and please only if you truly know of the problem and how to fix it. I’ve been through all the make sure you’re logged into your account and check you caps lock and crap like that. This is a true bug and Yahoo needs to resolve it.
In conclusion, if you are considering using Yahoo Mail as your primarily client, you might want to reconsider.
Frank Brammer
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