The War against Spam goes onWritten by Judi Singleton
Turns out biggest problem in fighting war against spam has been giant battle lines drawn between all participants. For most part, marketers, email broadcast firms, ISPs, and filter program firms rarely speak to each other. We all heard that people on "other side" thought of us as bad guys, and we focused on how to get around them.In trying to stop barrage of viagra ads and porno ad has unfortunately interfered with legitimate e-zine publishers, because we're caught in anti-spam crossfire. If you publish any type of e-mail publication, there's a likely chance that your e-zine is NOT reaching a portion of your readers. Why? Their Internet service provider (ISP) or e-mail program uses a spam filter. These software programs search for words and phrases that are typical of spam and assign each incoming e-mail a "score." If your e-mail has too many of these words and phrases, you receive a high score, and you may be blocked. This of course is hurting my business as I publish several ezines but I think perhaps there is another issue here. The freedom to choose who I get email from. My isp is deciding not only who I can send to but who I get email from by some spam score system. I feel this violates my rights as an individual. I have a right to receive my mail. I am just as irritated as next guy with vigara ads and porno ads, but in trying to filter these out we have given our rights as business owners and individuals to isp's.
| | A Quote vs. A BidWritten by Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence Coach
If you trying to price work to be done, it’s important to know difference between a quote and a bid. DEFINITIONSA quote - When you ask provider of service or product to tell you how much they would do project or service for with understanding that you aren't asking other people to "bid" on same project A bid - When you ask provider of service or product to tell you how much they would do project or service for with understanding that you are asking other people to bid on project as well COMPARISONS Less competitive vs. More competitive May involve only one service provider vs. Will involve more than one Compare price to what you had in mind or your budget vs. Compare price to what others bid as well as what you had in mind or your budget EXAMPLE Mary Ann called a marketing company and asked them how much they would charge her to design a logo for her, design a brochure for her and have it printed and collated. She was asking them for a quote. She didn't call any other companies.
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