If you own a small business and don’t have your own domain name, you are probably still using the email address provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or one of the free email services on the net.
Guard Your Email Address
How To Protect Your Email Address
Junk email is fast becoming the scourge of the Internet. I understand that if there was no junk email the Internet would run as much as 50% faster ! So, when browsing the Internet and your email address is requested for any reason, be wary – particularly if there is nothing stating how the information will be used. A web site should at least state that your address will not be provided to any third party.
Clean Concepts: Address Your Visitor’s “Pain”
This is a peer review of Inf-inet.com by Ken Hablow.
Inf-inet says they are satisfied with their traffic but not their retention or conversion rate. My first comment is, building a business site (not a pure e-commerce site) for search engine based traffic is worthless since Web design is a referral business. It is one based on networking and satisfied clients.
How can I print to a remote PC that does not have a static IP address?
This is a fairly common problem: you have a PC at home and you make some sort of connection over the internet to your server, but your application needs to print to your PC. That would be easier if your PC had a fixed, constant IP address, but your connection is dynamic so it changes.
There are many, many ways to solve this problem. So many, in fact. that I’ll probably miss one or two in this write up. If I do miss something, do let me know: it may help someone else down the line.
Affiliates Need to ‘Capture’ the Email Address
One of the secrets to a successful online home based business is capturing your visitors’ email address so you can contact them again and again. The most effective way to capture email addresses is by offering a free newsletter, free email course or free ebook.
For affiliates, capturing the email address is a bit more difficult, but certainly no less important.
If you resell products or services on your web site this is done through affiliate links. Quite often your visitor comes to your site, clicks an affiliate link and leaves; perhaps never to return again.
You MISS capturing the email address!
Online Fraud and IP Address Tracking
ClearCommerce Corporation, a provider of payment processing and fraud protection software for e-commerce, studied 1,100 of its best online merchants to get a better understanding of online fraud. In doing so, they analyzed 6 million transactions from 40,000 customers who were collectively doing business with the company’s merchants.
Building an E-mail Address Database
E-mail marketing works, there’s no denying it. Its key advantage over other Internet marketing methods is that it enables you to contact the customer instead of forcing the customer to contact you. This ability is especially useful when something that your customers need to know as soon as possible has happened. Whether you’ve just released a new product or decided to cut your prices by 10%, the fastest way to spread the word is via E-mail.
However, unless you want to give your company a bad name, you can’t simply start sending E-mails to people that haven’t agreed to receive them. The only ethical and reasonable way to advertise via E-mail is to first obtain a permission, or an opt-in request, from the receiver. The trouble is that this can’t be done via E-mail, as it would be similar to asking someone whether you can ask them a question. What’s the point in doing that, when you’ve already done what you wanted them to allow you to do?