Motivational: It Sure is Crazy Out There!

It Sure is Crazy Out There!

Written by Linda Offenheiser

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world of Internet marketing is changing rapidly. There are so many new twists and turns every day. How do we keep up with everything?

A Sense of Humor Helps!

I know it's hard to laugh when you receive 200 or more spam messages in your email every day. But what's repparttar 123116 alternative? Hit repparttar 123117 delete key or find an anti-spam program that works.

A friend passed on word of ChoiceMail to me and it's repparttar 123118 easiest thing to use that I've found. What's more ~ I don't have any spam in my mailbox since I installed it! Now that's something to smile about. If you want to check it out you can find it here: http://www.digiportal.com/. I'm using repparttar 123119 free version and it works just fine.

It's even harder to find something to laugh about when your business mail is being blocked. Sometimes this is repparttar 123120 fault of filters but other times those all-knowing ISP's just decide our subs or clients REALLY don't want to get our mail even though they've requested it.

Now that is just not a laughing matter. It affects repparttar 123121 way we do business and has an impact on our success. Lots of people are working on ways to correct this problem (and not all of them are interested in charging us huge fees to guarantee delivery of our mail).

For repparttar 123122 time being we have to take it in stride and keep working our business. This is just one more obstacle that has to be overcome; it is NOT repparttar 123123 end of repparttar 123124 Internet marketing world.

Stay Positive!

The worst thing you can do is let all this negative stuff affect your attitude. If you give in to frustration, if you throw up your hands and say, "This is just too much; I can't deal with it anymore" you may as well close repparttar 123125 doors of your business.

Why are Manhole Covers Round?

Written by Harald Anderson

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