Amazon warnings about SPAM These buggers have been persistent. I am getting these emails 3-5 times per day! Like so many SPAM emails now, these emails look quite legitimate at face value. Here are some quick tips . . .
Yahoo email getting hacked
Yahoo email getting hacked I have received a number of emails of late, supposedly from friends or people who I know, but it was just their Yahoo email getting hacked. This one in particular is a pretty common scam. Somehow a Yahoo or gmail email account gets hacked and then all contacts on the email… Read More »
Make it easy to read your phone number
Make it easy to read your phone number I know that this may sound trivial and nit-picking, but often it is attention to the small details that make the difference. In a previous post, I have written about the significance of your email signature and how to use it. So here is a refinement on… Read More »
Spam happening under “legitimate” guises
These days there is so much Spam happening under “legitimate” guises that it can be a real trap for the unwary. The Spammers have gone way past the blatant Spam emails that we used to receive in years past. They are much more subtle and sophisticated in tricking people into clicking their links. Here is… Read More »
View this email in your browser
The whole point of sending an email Newsletter should be to get people back to your website where they will buy or subscribe or take some desired action. Or at the very least, to give you a call or go to your shop. But in almost all cases, we are reading your email newsletter on… Read More »
How Henry Ford made the car affordable
Most people know that Henry Ford made the car affordable. When cars were first made, they were all hand built from scratch. This took a long time as each component was handcrafted and therefore was very expensive. But the modern family car is probably cheaper in real terms than the first cars produced – cheaper… Read More »
Whatever you do . . . do not reply
Whatever you do . . . do not reply to emails from Indian web developers and SEO people. Even though I have said this 1,000’s of times before, I made the fatal mistake and this is what happened. Within 20 minutes I had 7 more emails in my Inbox and . . .
It is just SPAM marketing
I regularly get emails forwarded to me by contacts and clients that say something like . . . (and I quote) “I thought you might like to know some of the reasons why you are not getting enough organic traffic & most often you stick to Ad words to get more traffic which is quite… Read More »
Check your domain name expiry date
OK . . . so this one has come up again . . . CHECK your domain name expiry date. We manage domain names for our clients. But if your website provider does not do that for you, then you must check up on this yourself.
Get your email address right
You must get your email address right because it affects so many aspects of your business success. And if you get it wrong, you could get blacklisted as a SPAMMER ! It’s a conversation that I have regularly with clients, and it came up again this week, so here are some quick tips . .… Read More »
