I like to use my email inbox as a To Do List where I can keep track of the priority in which I handle things. I’ll keep one email in my inbox for each matter to remind me of the latest developments for that situation. Email Flags – this feature can go hand in hand
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Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) – a spinoff of Domain Keys, you also get this with using an email service provider. Double Opt-In – a synonym for Confirmed Opt-In, defined earlier in this article series. Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA) – this is the Canadian law regulating commercial email. It is virtually identical to the
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Step 5 – Receiving telephone inquiries from mailing list members on new or sold listings. This can often be considered one step ahead of receiving an email inquiry because someone who is calling you is probably more likely to act soon than someone who is taking a more guarded approach by only emailing you. Deliverability
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You should definitely have a confirmed opt-in process on your website when building an opt-in database. If you don’t and only have a single, unconfirmed opt-in process, you’ll risk getting a lot of bogus email addresses. Some real estate professionals try to entice people to sign up for their mailing list by offering them some
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3) Some (perhaps many) people will be ticked off with you because you’ve made their email address available to hundreds of other people by using To: or CC:! This is one of the ways email addresses wind up on mass email databases used by spammers. If any of these people have a relatively spam-free email
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CAN-SPAM Act – this is US legislation passed in December 2003 under the Bush administration. The CAN-SPAM Act sets forth basic requirements for sending commercial email messages in or to the United States (the equivalent in Canada is the Electronic Commerce Protection Act or ECPA explained later in this article series). In a nutshell, the
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Email Body — This is your email message itself, sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Same idea as the body of a regular snail mail. Bounce – a bounce means your email has not been delivered for some reason. There are two types of bounces (hard and soft bounces) and it’s important to
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I once got an email from a friend asking me to critique her resume, and her resume was attached. Since this friend was someone who occasionally asked me for advice I didn’t think anything was suspicious since the email was coming from her real email address and the attachment file name was something like ‘Sonya’s
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As with many laws and contracts, there’s theory and there’s practice, the law and the reality. Some AUPs that threaten large financial penalties for sending commercial email are doing this to deter spammers from using their services and won’t actually charge you these penalties unless you are a spammer. They may in fact be perfectly
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Many of us got computers and the internet thrust upon us in the last decade or so without any real training on it. For many of us it’s been like only speaking English all our lives and then visiting a foreign country where very few people speak English. We have to grasp our way along
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