To get most from your video production dollars, we’ll take a look at seven top tips for making your corporate video a success.

1.Start with Results. The first step is to work out exactly what you want your video to achieve. Is it to train staff on a new procedure or is to increase interest at trade shows? Design your video concept around desired result. Often clients get caught up with showing off their company that main message gets lost.

2.Write a brief. Once you know what you want to achieve, work out what you want to show and explain in your video. Formulate a brief that specifies your objectives, target audience, countries your video will be viewed in and any required languages. A list of all shots that you need is also helpful. Will bulk of shots be at your premises and do you need your CEO to talk to camera? Video production companies will try to calculate how many days filming are required to work out cost, so it’s important to know how much needs to be filmed at outset.

Spam is defiantly a problem. At one time I was receiving almost 300 per day, spending a good part an hour sifting through mass of junk was more than I could tolerate. So I too enlisted help of a Spam Filter – Spam Arrest.

I do worry about losing out on emails that are important and interesting, but this is price we all have to pay for those Spammers that have abused and are abusing Internet.

Most Spam Filters use a Blacklist – these are clusters of email addresses and domain names that are known for sending out a lot of Spam. Recipients of Spam generate most Blacklists’. So your newsletter could fall victim to a click happy Spam identifier that clicks your email into dreaded Blacklist vault.

Spam Assassin, Cloudmark’s SpamNet and Spam Arrest all use different methods of blocking spam. Spam Assassin uses a point system to conclude whether or not an email is Spam. If your Newsletter scores high it will surely be treated as spam and blocked. SpamNet blocks Spam two ways; first, filters email based on keywords like “Free”, and second allows users to mark email and submit identified Spam to be blocked to other users of SpamNet.

My personal favorite is Spam Arrest, because it offers you total control over your inbox. You can decide who is allowed to send you email by importing your personal address book, or entering your known and approved contact addresses directly into system.

Emails from unknown senders will receive an auto-reply message containing a "challenge" -- if or when sender completes challenge (the response), their email is forwarded to your inbox, and they are then added to your authorized sender list.