Make all your Mailing Lists Double Opt-In

Accusations of spam can be so harmful to your business that every effort should be made to prevent it.

However, simply requesting a surfer to enter an e-mail address into an online form on your website is not a guarantee of not being accused of spam.

Here's what could happen

One of your competitors could visit your website and enter name of a well-known anti-spammer. When your autoresponder sends out latest copy of your newsletter or mini-course to this person, he will become very angry.

Internet streaming audio is most prevalent form of multimedia on Internet today according to Creative, one of leading companies in sound hardware field. Over last few years, streaming audio has moved from being a curiosity to a business strategy that is adopted by many media organizations.

There are over 100,000 sites that provide streaming audio content and there is a diverse set of available content ranging from music, news, business presentations, sports, talk shows, educational material, religious sermons and company earnings call.

Streaming Audio has always been available to big corporate sites and techies. Now every one can use simple software to produce their own streaming audio from a web site.

Marketers and business people have always known that a well-placed audio stream can increase sales and signups to their products and services. The problem has always been that average person could not afford high cost of special servers or programmers to be able to use this technology.

There have been a number of products around that provide streaming audio however as they have grown and developed so have their plugins required for listening to streaming files.

With new software available today anyone can add audio to their sites without need for large plugins and complicated software. Simply add your audio file and choose a component to activate stream and click go. These programs output all necessary files, which you can then use to embed in your web pages with a quick copy and paste.

These new software programs use Macromedia Flash technology and LAME compression and resource bits to produce very high quality output from MP3 or WAV files. The web visitor can simply click and listen, even over a standard 56K modem.

So now that you're considering adding sweet sound of your voice to your site, where might you want to use it?