Email Talk

Cool Signature Blocks For Emails in Gmail

2009-07-29T18:42:00.000-07:00

First off, you need to get Firefox. As far as I am concerned, Firefox and Google Gmail go hand in hand.

I have had many folks ask me, how can I make a nice signature block, with a picture, and some other HTML links to be automatically added to my Gmail signature block?

First off, Gmail provides a fair rudimentary signature block that can be selected and customized somewhat from the settings page. However, it is limited to placing a www.pwebs.net or http://jimwarholic.com plain link in the email with a name, phone number, address, or whatever you would like to say at the closure of your emails. The signature block with the plain links become automatic hyperlinks when it is added to the email, and the email is sent out.

If you want to add pictures or link text, also called anchor text, link labels, or link titles (the visible hyperlinked text) such as: Internet Marketing Services, then you need to install a Firefox Add-on. Add-ons are simply little custom made, free programs, that are installed on top of the basic Firefox installation. In fact, there are thousands of add-ons available for download at the Mozilla Firefox website. Like I said, first download Firefox for your PC, Apple, or Linux computer and then you can customize the Firefox application any way you like.

The add-on that I have been using recently for Gmail signature blocks is called: Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures. Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures add-on allows you to customize multiple signatures and automatically add them to your Gmail emails below or above quoted text.

To install, go to the Firefox add-on page for Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures and click the "Add to Firefox" button. Once you do that, then you will have to relaunch Firefox, and the Signatures menu will appear when you go to write an email in the Gmail application. The first time you use it, you will need to customize your signature. You can have a number of different signatures, depending on what you are doing, or who your target audience is.

I've created several different signatures, depending on how I feel the email should be signed off. Here are some examples of signature blocks I have created.

I call this one my Business S&M Strategies.

Get Your Website Discovered Online

Professional Web Services

Find Out More Now

Jim Warholic

Professional Web Services, Inc.

www.pwebs.net

My phone number in the email.

The following is my SEO Internet Marketing Services.

Get Your Website Discovered Online

Professional Web Services

Find Out More Now

Jim Warholic

Professional Web Services, Inc.

www.pwebs.net

My phone number is in the email version.

Then this one is My Girl - Deal or No Deal!

Get Your Website Discovered Online

Professional Web Services

Find Out More Now

Jim Warholic

Professional Web Services, Inc.

www.pwebs.net

My phone number is listed here in the emails.

So, as you can see, you can have a little fun with your email signature blocks too.

If you don't know how to write html code, don't fret, there are free online html editors, in a "what you see is what you get," WYSIWYG mode, that you can use to create a cool looking signature block with not having to know any html coding. Simply type what you want, grab a picture from your website, insert the image using a button, and lay it out the way you want. I suggest you use an image online, published at your website, or one that you have uploaded to an image hosting service that allows "hot linking" such as Photobucket, and embed the image using the image button in the WYSIWG html editor. Once you get the layout the way you like it, then go to the code mode and copy the html code into your Blank Canvas Gmail Signature create button, and save it in the default or several other selectable signatures. Then when you write an email with your Gmail account, it will automatically be added if it is the default or you can select the other ones if you desire.

This can be a very very powerful sales and marketing tool to use for your business. Get your sales people to send signature blocks with more information about your company links. Just a suggestion, it is probably wise to not go overboard with too many links or pictures in the signature block area.

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Spice Up Your Email World With a New Theme on Gmail

2009-01-03T00:50:00.000-08:00

Choices are cool. Themes are very cool.

Google just recently came out with Gmail themes for customizing the look of your Gmail account. Check out the Official Google Gmail Blog article: Spice up your inbox with colors and themes.

I use a different theme to help me keep track of the Gmail account I am on. I color code the Gmail accounts for different customer Gmail accounts.

Take a look at this feature and all the themes that are available. I'm sure you will find one that you will like. My wife found her favorite. And since I couldn't make up my mind which one I liked the best, I reverted to using a classic style for one and some hip-hop styles for others.

Have a little fun. Put some creativity into your life. You never know what might spur a new creative marketing thought in the brain.

Best regards,

Jim

Creating Gmail Email Filters

2008-08-02T15:51:00.000-07:00

Google Gmail Group Adopts One of My Suggestions

I don't claim to be the only one that has suggested the following, but I see that Google has added another Gmail menu item when creating a filter.

First off, filters are very powerful automatically executed items that can be created by users that allows the user to automatically do things to specific emails that arrive to the inbox such as: add labels, archive emails, forward emails, and other actions.

Choose action - Now, select the action you'd like to take on messages that match the criteria you specified.
When a message arrives that matches the search: from:(), do the following:

Skip the Inbox (Archive it)
Mark as read
Star it
Apply the label:
Forward it to:
Delete it
Never send it to Spam
Also apply filter to 62 conversations below.

Now, the specific item that was recently added was a filter that never sends it to Spam.

You might be wondering, why in the world would you never want something to go to spam. Well, part of the spam monitoring algorithms sometimes segregate certain emails from online formmails as spam. If you are forwarding a formmail to your Gmail email box, these have a habit of sometimes landing in the Spam folder because it looks like gibberish at various sections of the email and may not look exactly like a proper email from the online formmail form. Because an email address sometimes ended up in the spam section, you had to constantly check the spam box to make sure you did not receive an important email. By creating a filter from a certain email location, you can now specify that those emails will always show up in your inbox.

To create an email filter, simply click the link near the top of Gmail, "Create a filter" and follow the instructions: "Choose search criteria. Specify the criteria you'd like to use for determining what to do with a message as it arrives. Use "Test Search" to see which messages would have been filtered using these criteria." You can specify keywords to include, keywords to exclude, subjects, from or to email addresses, and attachments as the starting criteria for the next step. The next step is doing an action. Skip the Inbox (Archive it), Mark as read, Star it, Apply the label:, Forward it to:, Delete it, Never send it to Spam, and Also apply filter to (number of) conversations below.

For example, if you receive emails from family members or a brother, and would like to apply the label "Jim" to emails from Jim automatically, use the from: Jim's email address, and automatically apply the label "Jim" to new emails that arrive, and also apply the label "Jim" to past emails from Jim too. Now, when an email arrives from Jim, you will see the label "Jim" added also. Note: This however, is only half the filter I really want. If I also want to automatically apply the label "Jim" when I write an email to Jim, I need to create a second filter that applies the label "Jim" when I send an email to Jim's email address. Now, when you click on the label "Jim" you will see all emails to and from Jim for quick reference. Additionally you can even color code your labels by clicking the little square box right next to the label area on the side and add a specific color to various labels for quick reference. By-the-way, you can automatically execute more than one filter item and provide multiple labels to any email.

Another way of using filters, is with your cell phone number, text messaging, and or pager notification. You can automatically have an alert send a message to your cell phone when a certain email arrives from a specific location. This in essence forwards the email to your cell phone text messaging area. Note: All cell phones and pagers have their own email addresses that are specific to the cell phone or pager number. See Gmail Cell Phone and Pager Notification for more information on this process. Try this feature out. It's pretty cool.

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Understanding The CAN-SPAM Act For Commercial Email

2008-07-17T12:55:00.000-07:00

Commercial Emailing Legal Requirements -

I just read a good article about sending bulk commercial emails by Eric Sindrod, a San Francisco attorney that covers in depth about the legal requirements for mass email marketing campaigns.

First off, below is the actual language from the Federal Trade Commission website of the Federal CAN-SPAM Act requirements. Act covers commercial email; non-commercial email is not subject to the Act. See below for more information.

The CAN-SPAM Act: Requirements for Commercial Emailers

The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) establishes requirements for those who send commercial email, spells out penalties for spammers and companies whose products are advertised in spam if they violate the law, and gives consumers the right to ask emailers to stop spamming them.

The law, which became effective January 1, 2004, covers email whose primary purpose is advertising or promoting a commercial product or service, including content on a Web site. A "transactional or relationship message" – email that facilitates an agreed-upon transaction or updates a customer in an existing business relationship – may not contain false or misleading routing information, but otherwise is exempt from most provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, is authorized to enforce the CAN-SPAM Act. CAN-SPAM also gives the Department of Justice (DOJ) the authority to enforce its criminal sanctions. Other federal and state agencies can enforce the law against organizations under their jurisdiction, and companies that provide Internet access may sue violators, as well.

What the Law Requires

Here's a rundown of the law's main provisions:

It bans false or misleading header information. Your email's "From," "To," and routing information – including the originating domain name and email address – must be accurate and identify the person who initiated the email.
It prohibits deceptive subject lines. The subject line cannot mislead the recipient about the contents or subject matter of the message.
It requires that your email give recipients an opt-out method. You must provide a return email address or another Internet-based response mechanism that allows a recipient to ask you not to send future email messages to that email address, and you must honor the requests. You may create a "menu" of choices to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to end any commercial messages from the sender.

Any opt-out mechanism you offer must be able to process opt-out requests for at least 30 days after you send your commercial email. When you receive an opt-out request, the law gives you 10 business days to stop sending email to the requestor's email address. You cannot help another entity send email to that address, or have another entity send email on your behalf to that address. Finally, it's illegal for you to sell or transfer the email addresses of people who choose not to receive your email, even in the form of a mailing list, unless you transfer the addresses so another entity can comply with the law.
It requires that commercial email be identified as an advertisement and include the sender's valid physical postal address. Your message must contain clear and conspicuous notice that the message is an advertisement or solicitation and that the recipient can opt out of receiving more commercial email from you. It also must include your valid physical postal address.

Penalties

Each violation of the above provisions is subject to fines of up to $11,000. Deceptive commercial email also is subject to laws banning false or misleading advertising.

Additional fines are provided for commercial emailers who not only violate the rules described above, but also:

"harvest" email addresses from Web sites or Web services that have published a notice prohibiting the transfer of email addresses for the purpose of sending email
Generate email addresses using a "dictionary attack" – combining names, letters, or numbers into multiple permutations
Use scripts or other automated ways to register for multiple email or user accounts to send commercial email
Relay emails through a computer or network without permission – for example, by taking advantage of open relays or open proxies without authorization.

The law allows the DOJ to seek criminal penalties, including imprisonment, for commercial emailers who do – or conspire to:

Use another computer without authorization and send commercial email from or through it
Use a computer to relay or retransmit multiple commercial email messages to deceive or mislead recipients or an Internet access service about the origin of the message
Falsify header information in multiple email messages and initiate the transmission of such messages
Register for multiple email accounts or domain names using information that falsifies the identity of the actual registrant
Falsely represent themselves as owners of multiple Internet Protocol addresses that are used to send commercial email messages.

Additional Rules

The FTC will issue additional rules under the CAN-SPAM Act involving the required labeling of sexually explicit commercial email and the criteria for determining "the primary purpose" of a commercial email. Look for the rule covering the labeling of sexually explicit material in April 2004; "the primary purpose" rulemaking will be complete by the end of 2004. The Act also instructs the FTC to report to Congress in summer 2004 on a National Do Not E-Mail Registry, and issue reports in the next two years on the labeling of all commercial email, the creation of a "bounty system" to promote enforcement of the law, and the effectiveness and enforcement of the CAN-SPAM Act.

See the FTC Web site at www.ftc.gov/spam for updates on implementation of the CAN-SPAM Act.

The FTC maintains a consumer complaint database of violations of the laws that the FTC enforces. Consumers can submit complaints online at www.ftc.gov and forward unwanted commercial email to the FTC at spam@uce.gov.

For More Information

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair practices in the marketplace and to provide information to businesses to help them comply with the law. To file a complaint or to get free information on consumer issues, visit ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

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Eric Sinrod, a Duane Morris partner in the San Francisco office, covers fast-breaking issues where the law and technology intersect in a weekly column published online at CNET News.com and Findlaw.com. He wrote an article titled, "Commercial Email - Getting It Right"

Now, with the importance of email marketing, it is wise to brush up on the law when it comes to sending out mass emails for commercial purposes. As more people have gone to the Internet for their online shopping, and in most cases have bypassed the traditional print media such as daily newspapers for reading the current events of the day, and hence the print advertising does not place your business in front of a majority of the buyers as it once did; it is wise to expand your online marketing efforts to not only online advertising but also including some form of email marketing campaigns.

There is much to digest from not only understanding federal laws, but there are also state laws, and international laws regarding bulk commercial emails that must be carefully evaluated for companies in order to maintain compliance across the great Internet divide.

It is interesting to note, that the CAN-SPAN Act covers commercial bulk emailing only. Mr. Sinrod writes, "It is important to note that while the Act does regulate bulk email, it does not prohibit its transmission. Moreover, non-commercial email is not subject to the Act, and transactional or relationship messages generally are not subject to the Act (apart from the prohibition against materially false or materially misleading header information)."

If you are a large company or even a smaller company contemplating doing a bulk commercial email campaign, it is advisable to make sure you are email complaint before stepping out on the limb, and having it break.

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How to E-mail Guide for Business and Personal for POP

2007-10-17T21:02:00.000-07:00

Setting Up Business E-mail and Personal Email Accounts with POP

Do you work from home? Do you have a business email account? Do you have a personal email account? Would you like to keep your business and personal emails separate, but easily read and respond to both at the same time, and with the same software email client program?

Get the inside scoop of what is necessary to make your life easier when dealing with both personal e-mails and business e-mails, when using the same computer, and the same email client programs. Learn how you can keep them separate but monitor them together.

Read about how to go about setting your personal and business e-mail accounts up on your personal computer using POP for Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Thunderbird, Mozilla, Netscape, Eudora, Apple Mail, and others.

Good Marketing Solutions by Jim Warholic

Gmail Cell Phone And Pager Notification

2007-02-22T00:49:00.000-08:00

Cool Features In Gmail

Are you expecting an important email from someone? Would you like to get immediate notification of an email even when you are not at your computer?

Well, with Gmail you can get an alert sent to your pager or cell phone free of charge, even if you don't have a text pager.

Believe it or not, your pager and cell phone have their own email addresses. That's right, most pagers and phones have a unique email address specific to the phone number and the hosting provider. What that means is that you or anyone can trigger a page or a cell phone text message from any email system in the world.

So, back to the Gmail solution for notification. You can set all your emails to notify you when any email arrives or create a filter for specific emails from specific individuals, subjects, having certain words, or not having certain words in the text, to automatically forward the message onto the email of the pager or cell phone. If you only have a number pager (as opposed to text pager), the text will not come through, but you will know it is a page from your email system. There will be some sort of code specific to the email displayed on the pager itself. If you have a cell phone, most cell phones provide at least a truncated messaging receiving system. You will most likely be able to read the subject line and maybe a little of the body text.

With this in mind, you can really keep tabs on your business when away from the office. Also, many voice mail systems are now being set up to provide not only voice mail over the phone but also provide access via the Web. By sending your messages to a specific or dedicated free email box you can save your voice mail messages forever as MP3 files plus get free notification of new voice mail messages.

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SMS Cell Phone And Pager Email List
Courtesy of Supcast

3 River Wireless phonenumber@sms.3rivers.net

ACS Wireless phonenumber@paging.acswireless.com

Advantage Communications 10digitpagernumber@advantagepaging.com

Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@myairmail.com

Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@alphapage.airtouch.com

Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@airtouch.net

Airtouch Pagers 10digitpagernumber@airtouchpaging.com

AlphNow pin@alphanow.net

Alltel 10digitphonenumber@alltelmessage.com

Alltel PCS 10digitphonenumber@message.alltel.com

Ameritech Paging 10digitpagernumber@paging.acswireless.com

Ameritech Paging 10digitpagernumber@pageapi.com

Ameritech Clearpath 10digitpagernumber@clearpath.acswireless.com

Andhra Pradesh Airtel phonenumber@airtelap.com

Arch Pagers (PageNet) 10digitpagernumber@archwireless.net

Arch Pagers (PageNet) 10digitpagernumber@epage.arch.com

Arch Pagers (PageNet) 10digitpagernumber@archwireless.net

AT&T PCS 10digitphonenumber@mobile.att.net

AT&T Pocketnet PCS 10digitphonenumber@dpcs.mobile.att.net

Beepwear pagernumber@beepwear.net

BeeLine GSM phonenumber@sms.beemail.ru

Bell Atlantic phonenumber@message.bam.com

Bell Canada phonenumber@txt.bellmobility.ca

Bell Canada phonenumber@bellmobility.ca

Bell Mobility (Canada) phonenumber@txt.bell.ca

Bell Mobility number@txt.bellmobility.ca

Bell South (Blackberry) number@bellsouthtips.com

Bell South phonenumber@sms.bellsouth.com

Bell South phonenumber@wireless.bellsouth.com

Bell South phonenumber@blsdcs.net

Bell South phonenumber@bellsouth.cl

Bell South Mobility phonenumber@blsdcs.net

Blue Sky Frog phonenumber@blueskyfrog.com

Bluegrass Cellular phonenumber@sms.bluecell.com

Boost phonenumber@myboostmobile.com

BPL mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Cable & wireless, Panama cellnumber@cwmovil.com

Carolina Mobile Communications 10digitpagernumber@cmcpaging.com

Cellular One East Coast phonenumber@phone.cellone.net

Cellular One South West phonenumber@swmsg.com

Cellular One PCS phonenumber@paging.cellone-sf.com

Cellular One 10digitphonenumber@mobile.celloneusa.com

Cellular One phonenumber@cellularone.txtmsg.com

Cellular One phonenumber@cellularone.textmsg.com

Cellular One phonenumber@cell1.textmsg.com

Cellular One phonenumber@message.cellone-sf.com

Cellular One phonenumber@sbcemail.com

Cellular One West phonenumber@mycellone.com

Cellular South phonenumber@csouth1.com

Central Vermont Communications 10digitpagernumber@cvcpaging.com

CenturyTel phonenumber@messaging.centurytel.net

Chennai RPG Cellular phonenumber@rpgmail.net

Chennai Skycell / Airtel phonenumber@airtelchennai.com

Cincinnati Bell phonenumber@mobile.att.net

Cingular 10digitphonenumber@cingularme.com

Cingular Wireless 10digitphonenumber@mycingular.textmsg.com

Cingular Wireless 10digitphonenumber@mobile.mycingular.com

Cingular Wireless 10digitphonenumber@mobile.mycingular.net

Clearnet phonenumber@msg.clearnet.com

Comcast phonenumber@comcastpcs.textmsg.com

Communication Specialists 7digitpin@pageme.comspeco.net

Communication Specialist Companies pin@pager.comspeco.com

Comviq number@sms.comviq.se

Cook Paging 10digitpagernumber@cookmail.com

Corr Wireless Communications phonenumber@corrwireless.net

Delhi Aritel phonenumber@airtelmail.com

Delhi Hutch phonenumber@delhi.hutch.co.in

Digi-Page / Page Kansas 10digitpagernumber@page.hit.net

Dobson Cellular Systems phonenumber@mobile.dobson.net

Dobson-Alex Wireless / Dobson-Cellular One phonenumber@mobile.cellularone.com

DT T-Mobile phonenumber@t-mobile-sms.de

Dutchtone / Orange-NL phonenumber@sms.orange.nl

Edge Wireless phonenumber@sms.edgewireless.com

EMT phonenumber@sms.emt.ee

Escotel phonenumber@escotelmobile.com

Fido phonenumber@fido.ca

Galaxy Corporation 10digitpagernumber.epage@sendabeep.net

GCS Paging pagernumber@webpager.us

Goa BPLMobil phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Golden Telecom phonenumber@sms.goldentele.com

GrayLink / Porta-Phone 10digitpagernumber@epage.porta-phone.com

GTE number@airmessage.net

GTE number@gte.pagegate.net

GTE 10digitphonenumber@messagealert.com

Gujarat Celforce phonenumber@celforce.com

Houston Cellular number@text.houstoncellular.net

Idea Cellular phonenumber@ideacellular.net

Infopage Systems pinnumber@page.infopagesystems.com

Inland Cellular Telephone phonenumber@inlandlink.com

The Indiana Paging Co last4digits@pager.tdspager.com

JSM Tele-Page pinnumber@jsmtel.com

Kerala Escotel phonenumber@escotelmobile.com

Kolkata Airtel phonenumber@airtelkol.com

Kyivstar number@smsmail.lmt.lv

Lauttamus Communication pagernumber@e-page.net

LMT phonenumber@smsmail.lmt.lv

Maharashtra BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Maharashtra Idea Cellular phonenumber@ideacellular.net

Manitoba Telecom Systems phonenumber@text.mtsmobility.com

MCI Phone phonenumber@mci.com

MCI phonenumber@pagemci.com

Meteor phonenumber@mymeteor.ie

Meteor phonenumber@sms.mymeteor.ie

Metrocall 10digitpagernumber@page.metrocall.com

Metrocall 2-way 10digitpagernumber@my2way.com

Metro PCS 10digitphonenumber@mymetropcs.com

Metro PCS 10digitphonenumber@metropcs.sms.us

Microcell phonenumber@fido.ca

Midwest Wireless phonenumber@clearlydigital.com

MiWorld phonenumber@m1.com.sg

Mobilecom PA 10digitpagernumber@page.mobilcom.net

Mobilecomm number@mobilecomm.net

Mobileone phonenumber@m1.com.sg

Mobilfone phonenumber@page.mobilfone.com

Mobility Bermuda phonenumber@ml.bm

Mobistar Belgium phonenumber@mobistar.be

Mobitel Tanzania phonenumber@sms.co.tz

Mobtel Srbija phonenumber@mobtel.co.yu

Morris Wireless 10digitpagernumber@beepone.net

Motient number@isp.com

Movistar number@correo.movistar.net

Mumbai BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Mumbai Orange phonenumber@orangemail.co.in

NBTel number@wirefree.informe.ca

Netcom phonenumber@sms.netcom.no

Nextel 10digitphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com

Nextel 10digitphonenumber@page.nextel.com

Nextel 10digitphonenumber@nextel.com.br

NPI Wireless phonenumber@npiwireless.com

Ntelos number@pcs.ntelos.com

O2 name@o2.co.uk

O2 (M-mail) number@mmail.co.uk

Omnipoint number@omnipoint.com

Omnipoint 10digitphonenumber@omnipointpcs.com

One Connect Austria phonenumber@onemail.at

OnlineBeep 10digitphonenumber@onlinebeep.net

Optus Mobile phonenumber@optusmobile.com.au

Orange phonenumber@orange.net

Orange Mumbai phonenumber@orangemail.co.in

Orange - NL / Dutchtone phonenumber@sms.orange.nl

Oskar phonenumber@mujoskar.cz

P&T Luxembourg phonenumber@sms.luxgsm.lu

Pacific Bell phonenumber@pacbellpcs.net

PageMart 7digitpinnumber@pagemart.net

PageMart Advanced /2way 10digitpagernumber@airmessage.net

PageMart Canada 10digitpagernumber@pmcl.net

PageNet Canada phonenumber@pagegate.pagenet.ca

PageOne NorthWest 10digitnumber@page1nw.com

PCS One phonenumber@pcsone.net

Personal Communication sms@pcom.ru (number in subject line)

Pioneer / Enid Cellular phonenumber@msg.pioneerenidcellular.com

PlusGSM phonenumber@text.plusgsm.pl

Pondicherry BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Powertel phonenumber@voicestream.net

Price Communications phonenumber@mobilecell1se.com

Primco number@primeco@textmsg.com

Primtel phonenumber@sms.primtel.ru

ProPage 7digitpagernumber@page.propage.net

Public Service Cellular phonenumber@sms.pscel.com

Qualcomm name@pager.qualcomm.com

Qwest 10digitphonenumber@qwestmp.com

RAM Page number@ram-page.com

Rogers AT&T Wireless phonenumber@pcs.rogers.com

Rogers Canada 10digitphonenumber@pcs.rogers.com

Safaricom phonenumber@safaricomsms.com

Satelindo GSM phonenumber@satelindogsm.com

Satellink 10digitpagernumber.pageme@satellink.net

SBC Ameritech Paging 10digitpagernumber@paging.acswireless.com

SCS-900 phonenumber@scs-900.ru

SFR France phonenumber@sfr.fr

Skytel Pagers 7digitpinnumber@skytel.com

Skytel Pagers number@email.skytel.com

Simple Freedom phonenumber@text.simplefreedom.net

Smart Telecom phonenumber@mysmart.mymobile.ph

Southern LINC 10digitphonenumber@page.southernlinc.com

Southwestern Bell number@email.swbw.com

Sprint 10digitphonenumber@sprintpaging.com

Sprint PCS 10digitphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com

ST Paging pin@page.stpaging.com

SunCom number@tms.suncom.com

SunCom number@suncom1.com

Sunrise Mobile phonenumber@mysunrise.ch

Sunrise Mobile phonenumber@freesurf.ch

Surewest Communicaitons phonenumber@mobile.surewest.com

Swisscom phonenumber@bluewin.ch

T-Mobile 10digitphonenumber@tmomail.net

T-Mobile 10digitphonenumber@voicestream.net

T-Mobile Austria phonenumber@sms.t-mobile.at

T-Mobile Germany phonenumber@t-d1-sms.de

T-Mobile UK phonenumber@t-mobile.uk.net

Tamil Nadu BPL Mobile phonenumber@bplmobile.com

Tele2 Latvia phonenumber@sms.tele2.lv

Telefonica Movistar phonenumber@movistar.net

Telenor phonenumber@mobilpost.no

Teletouch 10digitpagernumber@pageme.teletouch.com

Telia Denmark phonenumber@gsm1800.telia.dk

Telus phonenumber@msg.telus.com

TIM 10digitphonenumber@timnet.com

Triton phonenumber@tms.suncom.com

TSR Wireless pagernumber@alphame.com

TSR Wireless pagernumber@beep.com

UMC phonenumber@sms.umc.com.ua

Unicel phonenumber@utext.com

Uraltel phonenumber@sms.uraltel.ru

US Cellular 10digitphonenumber@email.uscc.net

US Cellular 10digitphonenumber@uscc.textmsg.com

US West number@uswestdatamail.com

Uttar Pradesh Escotel phonenumber@escotelmobile.com

Verizon Pagers 10digitpagernumber@myairmail.com

Verizon PCS 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com

Verizon PCS 10digitphonenumber@myvzw.com

Vessotel phonenumber@pager.irkutsk.ru

Virgin Mobile phonenumber@vmobl.com

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Email Marketing - Are You Being Seen?

2007-02-07T23:32:00.000-08:00

Do Your Email Marketing Campaigns Get Seen By The Subscriber?

Are you spending money on your email marketing campaigns, with a great looking template design, great pictures, and great content? You may be surprised that what you see is not what the subscriber gets.

I have been telling a number of clients recently that including pictures only in a mass marketing email campaign might actually be causing problems and reducing the ROI. I have various email addresses that I typically use to view emails from both large and small name companies. I also use several types of readers, both online and on local computers, to see how the emails render. Some of the large name companies think that if they put a lot of cool looking pictures in their email campaigns they will increase the ROI. The truth is, the opposite affect might be happening because of how email client readers render an email, and the default handling of pictures with them off by default in many readers.

The following article The Rendering Run-Around By Len Shnyder, Director of Partner Relations and Industry Communications, Pivotal Veracity is an excellent article about understanding how the e-mail rendering process works for all the major email clients and online readers.

Everyone does not see the same thing. Some of the major email readers are defaulted to not displaying images, even in the preview pane mode. This can have a serious lack of branding affect and cause the reader to place the email into the spam box even if they subscribed to the email in the first place. The reason is because the pictures are not displayed and the reader can not tell what the brand is.

Here are some of the highlights from the article that is definitely worth reading.

# Images are "ON" by default in: AIM.com, AOL.com, Cox, Comcast, Earthlink, Outlook 2002, Roadrunner, Lotus Notes, Yahoo’s inbox folder.
# Images are "OFF" by default in: AOL 9, Gmail, Hotmail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, Outlook Express 6, Windows Live Mail

11. Does my design effect my delivery, reputation and/or ROI?

Everything is connected! The elements of "good email" don't exist in a vacuum. The design of your email can and does impact delivery with most spam filtering programs incorporating design-based rules as well as various forms of HTML validation.

Read the whole article The Rendering Run-Around

I would add this little piece of advice. Email marketing campaigns must take the rendering issues into account up front. When designing an email template, take into account the ability to hyper link to the main article in the website or specific web pages for landing pages. Do not try to make your email marketing campaign the website. Images in emails should be held down to a minimum or a good balance between body text and the layout; with the understanding of how images are not displayed and the large gaps that can result in the actual email as being displayed in a client's email box.

I personally think that email clients will continue to tighten up how email is handled in the delivery aspect. Both business to business, B2B marketing, and business to consumer, B2C email marketing campaigns will have to tune their templates and in some cases eliminate 90% of the pictures in the emails, if they want to have the best possible ROI.

Jim Warholic, President of Professional Web Services, Inc. Internet Marketing Services.

A Great Addition

2006-08-13T21:20:00.000-07:00

Google has recently added a few new features that make your Gmail box even easier and more powerful to use.

Global actions can be taken across a whole select set of emails with a few simple clicks of the mouse. See: How do I apply an action to all messages in a label?

With this addition to Gmail, Google has made it much easier to manage a large number of emails and perform a global action item. There are numerous other new features that I personally use, but one feature that is really cool for me is the ability to allow Gmail to handle multiple email accounts from just one account. In fact, Gmail can send an email as though it is from one of your other email accounts. If your like me, I suspect most people have at least a couple of email addresses. These other accounts could be forwarded to the Gmail account or kept separate. By customizing the settings in Gmail a person could send an email, using Gmail, from their other email account. See: How do I customize the 'From:' address on outgoing mail?

The advantage of being able to do this is that many times you might not want to use your personal Gmail email address for sending a inquiry notice or wish to keep your email private to just a select few individuals. This allows you to use your other account directly without having to log off and log in at the other one.

Check out some of the other cool features.

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Google Gmail Update

2006-04-24T23:07:00.000-07:00

I know this is going to sound cliche but I am not sure what I would do with out the Gmail Service.

I would venture to say that my usage is at the Internet power level mode. Not that Google has the power level mode but I use it for most of my day-to-day email solutions.

The reality of being able to go on any computer without having to lug a laptop around and check and respond to emails along with being able to have all the information at my finger-tips, makes this online application a truly remarkable achievement.

Gmail Power Level Mode

With the massive amount of daily research being conducted automatically online from Google News Alerts the ideal situation is to use a Gmail account for saving, searching, grouping, reading, and documenting the findings. I am one of those users that does conduct ongoing Internet research into a vast amount of different subjects. By subscribing to the news alerts one can quickly scan the subject lines or click open the alert and review the latest up-to-date findings. Once the email comes into the inbox it can be archived or remain in the inbox. A star can be placed for important emails. The emails can be grouped by labels and filters. A label is essentially a name assigned to a group of emails. Multiple labels can be linked to any email. Filters are customizable and are a type of automatic action that can take place when an email arrives.

Some other Internet power level features are the ability to have multiple email accounts forwarded into one Gmail account. Plus, the Gmail account can be set up to send as though it were coming from the associated account. This can be extremely helpful when trying to keep track of multiple email accounts without having to log in to each one. If an email arrives from one of the associates, a reply can be sent as though it were the main account.

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Privacy On The Internet

2005-11-12T19:23:00.000-08:00

Guarding Your Online Electronic Privacy

For those of you that do not know me, one of the things that I value more than anything else is online privacy.

I have written many business articles about online E privacy issues and content provider concerns. I would be the first to say if a service is, or has a policy of sharing of information on the Internet with others.

Many E privacy policies are extremely vague and in fact should be labeled something else other than a privacy policy.

Good E Privacy Policy

There is one service that I have come to trust with my emails and information online. That service is the Google Gmail Service. One of the things that really has stood out from them is their down-to-earth privacy policy, written in an easy to understand style with very little of the legalize that only an attorney would understand.

When I first heard about the Google Gmail Service I was very impressed with their up-front statements of how this email service works. After hearing much of the criticism from the news media I took it upon myself to do some research online comparing the privacy policies of other large content providers that offer email and other types of services. What I found was quite shocking in the way of lack of privacy with other online service providers. Many of the documents that are written are designed in my estimation to be intentionally misleading and actually are a policy for sharing information as opposed to holding it confidential.

While these other services have been around for a longer period of time I find it fascinating that no one in the mainstream media seems to question these other online policies. Could it be that there is such a double standard that exists between various news organizations and web search companies that they would actually ignore certain web search service providers that intentionally allow information to be shared with others while at the same time trying to crucify a service that is up-front with the public? Are there other egregious factors at work here?

What Does The Future Hold

Why does this double standard exist? Do people just turn a blind eye to facts? Are we just a society of non-thinkers? I would hope that we are not, but the path seems to be set for the world to sit back and just be fed whatever they want to hear and never question anything.

First off, we all write with a certain degree of prejudice. The mainstream media has a responsibility to be as fair as possible with all stories written. If the story is not a commentary but a reporting of facts then it is the responsibility of the news organization to cover both sides and report fairly. We have seen problems in the lack of responsible television and newspaper media reporting in the political arena and in fact these stories have been exposed by Blogger journalists. Blogger journalists have broken stories that others in the mainstream press have ignored or have been grossly negligent in their reporting of the facts.

The future is changing quickly. The landscape for electronic news reporting is becoming increasing explosive as we become more virtual in our gathering of information and press reporting of news stories online.

People seem to feel threatened by the unknown. Maybe traditional news media organizations feel threatened by the new way of doing business. Broadband Internet continues to impact our lives in new and profound ways. Information sources are at our fingertips that we can quickly compare the stories from different perspectives. Traditional television and print media sees a shrinking customer base along with a decline in advertisers, because of the influx of the Internet. The media giants are becoming more concerned with the direction the World Wide Web is having on their OLD business plans. They seem to see it as a threat as opposed to an opportunity to establish a NEW type of relationship with an online readership.

Secret Mitigating Factors - Follow The Money

Here are a few thoughts and questions that come to mind that could certainly be mitigating factors.

Everything really is about money. What type of business relationships do some of the traditional media outlets have with other content providers? Is it in the interest of some content providers to share information with their business affiliates? Maybe that is exactly the business agreements that are in effect. Are owners and editors at top line newspapers and television networks in bed with some of the online content providers? If so, imagine how easy it would be to encourge an overeager news reporter to write stories that are not fully accurate. These same editors and owners could just as easily squelch truthful news reporting on other issues. How much money is given by some to support certain causes and seemingly altruistic associations that are related to the big news associations? How much does politics play into the mix? Where is the online ethics in business today? What other mitigating secrets are hidden?

Yes, these are but a few of the reasons for all the news reporting today. Though some of these may be business excuses, it does not make it right. It will be interesting to see what the future holds.

James A. Warholic - President, Professional Web Services, Inc.

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Dbase Email

2005-06-24T11:27:00.000-07:00

Building Your Business Into A Bright Internet Star

Imagine being able to build a virtual database of thousands of articles, newsletters, and websites automatically catalog, search, and group them for future reference information.

This is just one of the many featured uses of using the Gmail Email Service.

Personal Extranet Intranet Research Assistant

Using the email news and web alert service and linking it to the Gmail service makes this the next generation tandem dynamo. Setting up the alerts is a piece of cake. Just go to the Google News™ news service and select what information you are searching for. Then at the bottom of the page click the email alert link and it will automatically create an alert that can be generated whenever it happens, daily, or weekly.

Now, whenever I need to do research I utilize my online database personal research assistant and search for related information. The information can be stored forever and can be accessed on any Internet connection. This can be a truly great sales and marketing tool for your industry or business.

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Email Briefing

2005-06-20T09:20:00.000-07:00

Free Gmail Email Account

Since February 4, 2005 I have had a Gmail Email account.

I must say I have been very impressed with all of the email features. The free service is extremly versatile and powerful in how it can be utilized for business as well as personal use.

To sign-up for an account requires being invited by someone. This is not difficult...

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G E-mail

2004-04-25T20:45:00.000-07:00

Gmail Thoughts...

My Gmail Office Assistant

My Internet Marketing Assistant

My opinion about the new Gmail without even trying it is it will be a great office assistant. For all those out there that are worried about the privacy issue, does anyone really believe that some sort of sampling of email is not going on at all of the big providers of email. Think about it... With all the security issues at stake in our country, our phones are probably monitored as well, and even the faxes that come through. If anyone wants to truly be private on their email then they would need to encrypt it.

Google is not holding a gun to anyone's head and saying they have to use it. If you do not want to use it, don't. I personally believe that the privacy issues will die down as people really start thinking about this. The only ones that really need to worry about this are Yahoo and MSN. Both of these companies do things 180 degrees different than Google. Google has shown over the years that they have provided great service at no cost what so ever to the searcher. Gmail service is going to be a great Win win win situation for all.

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