As promised, I’ll explain e-mail redirection and its benefits. I’ll use a client as an example. This company was just starting e-mail marketing, and decided to send e-mails to their customers. They wanted to show appropriate departments for e-mail addresses. Unaware of e-mail redirection, manager created e-mails with different free providers; john@hotmail; susan@msn; james@yahoo.com and so on. As an upscale restaurant, they had a prestigious reputation. However, when their business cards portrayed above e-mail addresses, they shot their image in foot!

A free-service e-mail address on your business card shouts “business on a startup budget.” They had a fabulous web site, but employees didn’t have corporate e-mail accounts? Using e-mail and web name redirection would enhance their image and search placement. The restaurant could get another web name (as explained in part 1 of this article) something like www.prestigedining.net, and establish e-mails as explained below

Here’s how it works. When I designed www.popcornfart.com , the web site for these articles, I received e-mail redirection option. E-mail redirection allows me to send to “anyone” at popcornfart.com. That means, I can pick any name and use it for e-mail as long as ending part of e-mail was @popcornfart.com. I can use following e-mail addresses:

jobs@popcornfart.com info@popcornfart.com support@popcornfart.com dodobird@popcornfart.com

All of these addresses redirect to one address; my company e-mail. That’s right! I only check one e-mail account. Just as popcornfart.com can redirect to another web site, you can have several e-mail addresses redirect to one account. If I wanted, I could use e-mails in this fashion:

Judy_in_HR@popcornfart.com Mr._Johnson@popcornfart.com

Listing e-mail addresses on business cards using first method, would also eliminate expense of business card reprinting each time an employee left; another cost saving procedure to consider.

I grant permission to publish this article, electronically or in print, as long as bylines are included, with a live link, and article is not changed in any way (grammatical corrections accepted).

We Do Eat Our Young: The Story of a Successful Home Business

Whether it is in world animals, recovering drug addicts, or business if truth were told we do eat our young. As when I was young I would watch Wild Kingdom every Sunday night, sure enough there it was a big strong fast Cat would be chasing down and eating some young antelope.

As a social worker I work with clients with addiction problems and have noticed they display a similar trait as cats. Once a person gets in recovery for just a short while they tend to be least tolerant of new people struggling to get into recovery. In market of Home Business I have noticed a similar occurrence with people that have struggled and found they way to having a profitable Home Business.

When I was hunting for a legitimate home business to start up, (which is no small task) I found what appeared to be a real business. The definition of a real business is a business that does not make any claim to be fool proof takes real effort, takes at least six months to start making any profit, and one that requires an investment of my own money.