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Does Your Email Work?

I’ve just had someone write to me and ask for the password to my first protected post. I gave it to him because he’s been on my blog list for a long time, but that’s the last time I’ll do it.

I’ve no idea if he’ll receive my email. Probably not.

The reason he didn’t receive the first email is likely because his email provider filtered it out on the incoming network.

Look.

If you have (or have aspirations for) an internet business, then for goodness sake, treat it with respect. Treat it like a business.

If you have friends you want to send the latest chain mail, then by all means use Yahoo or your ISPs email account. It’s non-critical right?

It doesn’t matter if your friend doesn’t receive it. (He won’t because it’ll be filtered out on the network).

But if you’re doing business, then use a business email address off one of your own domains.

Have you ever seen an email from me that was sent from Yahoo? Or my ISP?

So why would you send me an email or sign up to my mailing list with a Yahoo account?

If you’re not serious about your business, then don’t expect business people to treat you seriously.

Having an email address with Comcast, Verizon, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc. is like having a phone that doesn’t always ring out. And that phone only sometimes works when you want to make a call.

Yes I know this has been a bit of a rant, but it’s fast becoming near impossible for me to reply to people. And you probably know if you’ve had any dealings with me that I try to get replies out to you as soon as I’m able.

As I said in an earlier post, the chances of you sending a business email from Yahoo to AOL (and vice-versa) and you ever getting a reply back you can count on, are next to zero.

Something in that business email will trigger a network filter.

So get yourself sorted out. It will take you 10-20 minutes to do and will stop any future problems you may have even before they happen.

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business

Want Your Internet Business To Be Taken Seriously?

Do you want to be taken seriously?

Then use a business email address. I sell business tools to business people. So why is it that so many of those business people use Yahoo or AOL or GMail for their email accounts?

I get more than I want proposals for joint ventures, and a decent proportion of those are from supposed business people who aren’t using email addresses off their business domain.

That one thing is so simple to do, and instantly enhances your credibility.

It also ensures that if a reply is made, then you’ll get it.

I’ve no idea of the number of bounces I’ve had replying to questions by my customers and potential customers. I also know there’s a high proportion of people who never get my first email, because I get plenty of “Second Request:” emails from people who didn’t get my initial reply.

Why didn’t they get it? Because they’re using either free or their ISP email addresses.

And the providers of those kinds of email addresses are notoriously bad at dealing with email.

Pretty much the only way you’re going to guarantee to receive an email is to use your own email address on your own domain.

Think…

How many emails have you sent out and never had a reply to?

All those emails missing, because they either didn’t make it outside of your mail providers network, or the reply didn’t make it back in.

And there’s no way of knowing whether you were snubbed or the email was just lost.

Now compound that problem by the fact that some of those emails were also sent to the same kinds of email addresses.

Yahoo to AOL?  – Almost no chance of you ever receiving a reply back you can count on, and vice versa.

You can stop this madness instantly by just using your web control panel to create a new email address for you, and then setting it up in your mail client.

Problem solved.

Go do it now.

Do it as part of taking action to improve your life and your internet business.

– Frank Haywood.

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business