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How to Safely Share your Email Address Online
You have just come across a new website at example.com that offers an interesting software utility or an ebook for free. The offer is simple – you give them your email address and they’ll send you the download links over email.
Now while the website policy clearly states that they “won’t sell your email address to third-parties,” you aren't feeling very comfortable sharing your private email address with a website that you've never heard about before. What do you do then?
Do you plan to skip the offer just because you’re worried that spam might hit your email Inbox? Well, stop worrying and get a disposable email address that will auto-expire after some hours (or some days). [via]
Now while the website policy clearly states that they “won’t sell your email address to third-parties,” you aren't feeling very comfortable sharing your private email address with a website that you've never heard about before. What do you do then?
Do you plan to skip the offer just because you’re worried that spam might hit your email Inbox? Well, stop worrying and get a disposable email address that will auto-expire after some hours (or some days). [via]
There are quite a few websites that offer disposable email addresses for free but my favorite is 10minutemail.com. Just visit the and you’ll get a temporary email address that you can use anywhere on the web just like your regular email address (you can even reply and forward message).
The email addresses will self-destruct after, you guessed it right, 10 minutes. They regularly switch their email server domains – you might have been allotted abc@hello.com today but the alias next day could become xyz@bye.com. This prevents forum administrators from blocking members that use temporary addresses.
When Disposable Email Addresses Aren’t Enough..
You may use disposable email addresses when filling out online surveys, registration forms, comment forms, etc. but when you need to share your email address on a public website (like Twitter), disposable addresses won’t help as they expire pretty soon.
You still have a couple of options though.
Scr.im will convert your email address into a short web address (URL). People will have to pass a small CAPTCHA test to see your actual email address (see example).
Another service that can potentially save your email from spammers is reCAPTCHA. The service will require “human” users to solve a CAPTCHA for them to see your full email address in plain text. Here’s a demo:
Another service that can potentially save your email from spammers is reCAPTCHA. The service will require “human” users to solve a CAPTCHA for them to see your full email address in plain text. Here’s a demo:
Spambox.us will let you generate temporary email addresses that can last up to an year. Any email message that’s sent to this temporary address will be auto-forwarded to your main Inbox and, if you think you are getting spammed, you can simply cancel your Spambox address.
Then you have whspr.me that turns email address into a web forms. Anyone can reach you over email by simply writing the message in this form. You can delete the email form manually anytime or set it to auto-expire after ‘n’ days.
And finally the most common method – you can consider creating an image of your email address using labelgen (or even Facebook). Most spam bots won’t notice your email address while humans can easily read the address without having to solve complex CAPTCHAs.
Email Cover can also help you mask your precious email address but, unlike regular email to image converters, it doesn't use straight fonts so your address will possibly stay protected from spammers who are smart enough to perform OCR. See example:
Email Cover can also help you mask your precious email address but, unlike regular email to image converters, it doesn't use straight fonts so your address will possibly stay protected from spammers who are smart enough to perform OCR. See example:
Fast Way To Build Your Email List (Quicktips )
There are many bloggers out there that struggle hard to make money off their blogs while there are other bloggers that are enjoying big bucks, the main source of income of those most successful bloggers is the email opt in list. How did they achieve that success?
They simply write great content that impresses the blog readers, then readers subscribe to theiremail opt in list for more great content, but how do they make money off their email opt in list? Do you want to know how to make money from your email opt in list?
Of course you want. In this post I would like to share with you some gold advises to build a successful email list that actually converts.
I know there are some bloggers that have started before an email opt in list but failed to make money through it, by reading the rest of this post you will learn how to reanimate your failed venture, so keep reading ..
6 Tips To Build Your Email Opt in List Fast
1) Convert readers into subscribers to your email opt in list
Just launching your email opt in list would not make you money immediately, before expecting any money off your opt in list you have to put some articles on your blog, your email marketing success is based on your article’s quality, if the posts you publish are pretty impressive and useful your readers would not mind to subscribe to your email opt in list.
Write content and keep driving traffic to your blog to emphasize your readers on your mailing list. Now you have huge traffic from your mailing list is that enough ? Not yet let’s move to the next tip.
2) Get your readers trust
This is the most important thing when it comes to building a successful email list, if your readers and subscribers don’t trust on you then they will not purchase any products which you promote. Here are some few tips to earn your readers trust.
3) Do webinars
This is the most powerful way yet to gain your readers trust. Webinars allows you to get in front of your audience, your readers will feel like they are talking to a close friend and they will surely start to trust you.
In the webinar you just record yourself talking and all your audience is watching you in real-time, it feels like having them in your room.
GoTo Webinar is the best webinar service ever but it’s quite expensive but I think Ustream is an awesome alternative there also some other free alternatives.
4) Show income proofs to your readers
If you want to make your readers believe you and trust your advises you have to show the some income proofs, so they can believe that you actually make money and you are not just promoting your stuff.
Well it’s very important to get your readers trust, without this last one you can’t get any sales from your email list.
5) Create an enticing free incentive gift
If you want to increase your email opt in list subscriber then you have to consider adding a worthy gift for the people who subscribes to your email list. Create an irresistible gift that will force your readers to subscribe then enjoy an increase in the amount of subscribers.
6) Include ”Tell a friend” option
If you want your posts get shared via your email opt in list newsletter you have to make sure that ”tell a friend” option is included, you must include that button, so your subscribers could easily share your content with their friends.
Conclusion
I’ve shared some tips that will surely help you to set up and build an email opt in list that will make you lots of money based on the quality of your content and how much traffic you drive to it.
When it comes to monetization in my opinion affiliate products are the best monetization method to make money off your email list.
Now tell us in the comment section.
Do you have an email list?
Do you generate a passive income from it?
Please share with us your point of views if you have any queries the comment section should be enough to resolve your inquiry.
Auto-Update Contact Info From Email Signatures With WriteThat.Name
Emailing is another medium of communication which is being widely used. For people who are working in social networking or the Web, you might get a lot of emails from different organizations.Spring cleaning the address book is a mindless but important task we have to take to keep our contacts accessible.
Usually in emails, there will be a signature block which contain details such as sender’s name, phone number, social website URLs and more. Changes to these info are usually unannounced, but if you don’t notice them, then you might lose out.
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WriteThat.Name is a tool to help prevent that. It helps users to automatically update their address book by scanning signature block in emails. The app only works with Gmail accounts, Google App emails and Outlook.
Update Contacts Details Automatically
To start updating contact details automatically, browse over to WriteThat.Name and connect your Gmail account to it. When an email reaches a Gmail or MS Outlook Inbox, WriteThat.Name will scan the email for the sender’s signature block.
A sender’s signature block or email signature is usually filled with details such as their name, phone number, email address and the company they are working for. WriteThat.Name will sync all of that info with your address book, keeping your contacts list updated.
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If the signature block that WriteThat.Name scanned is new, it will add it as a new contact. Contacts that are recognized, will be updated accordingly.
Users can set to let WriteThat.Name automatically update the contacts or to update them only after receiving confirmation by the user.
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WriteThat.Name allow users to add multiple email accounts but note that changes will only be made to the master address book. If you have two separate email accounts with two sets of contacts you want to keep separate, connect them to WriteThat.Name independently.
An added feature is the email confirmation feature. Users can send the contacts an email to get confirmation if the latest contact details detected by WriteThat.Name are accurate or if it is their most current details.
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Flashback
For new users who want WriteThat.Name to scan emails from previous years, they can do so withFlashback. However, Flashback is a paid service which cost $35.00 per past year of email scans, and $100.00 for the past 5 years’ worth of email scans.
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To distinguish new contacts in your address book after a scan, there will be a ‘via Writethat.name’ label on the contacts. There will be a full report available after WriteThat.Name does a complete scan.
Pricing
New users will get to try the ‘Premium’ plan for a month. After a month, users will need to choose if they want to continue using other paid plan or a free plan.
There are three plans:
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WriteThat.Name for MS Outlook which is only free for 30 days requires an annual subscription of$48 to continue. If user decides not to subscribe, WriteThat.Name will stop updating contacts on their MS Outlook address book.
Conclusion
WriteThat.Name is a helpful tool to keep address books automatically and constantly up-to-date especially for power users. It can keep track of the same contact if he or she has changed numbers, work place or social accounts. This helps users to stay in the loop and keep up with their network circles efficiently.
How To Use Gmail Like A Marketing Machine
Marketers spend a lot of time on Gmail. For most of us that means staying on Gmail from the second we get up to the second we sleep. Email is an important tool in any marketer’s arsenal so whether you are a blogger, webmaster, or an entrepreneur using Gmail is a must. Here are five solid ways you can use Gmail like a marketing machine.
If you use Outlook or some other email client, this post isn't going to be of too much help to you. Sorry about that.
1. Manage Your Gmail Better
If you are sending a lot of emails to potential clients or bloggers for potential guest post opportunities, you understand how difficult it can be to manage all those emails and stay on top of replying to all the right people. There is nothing worse than missing an email from someone who could have been of great help to you. This is where Streak comes in.
Streak makes management of important emails easy by allowing you to not only categorize different emails but also make sub categories for where each email thread is in your process (are you still making the pitch, negotiating, is it a closed deal, etc..). You can even group all the emails from the same person together.
You can also use streak to preset when to send the email. You can write the email whenever you want and send it at the time they are most likely to read it. Write an email and set it to send tomorrow morning exactly at 9:30 AM and you can sleep right through 9:30, wake up at 10:00 and see that it has been sent. Isn't that enough to make you get Streak? All you have to do is click on the send later button when you are composing an email and choose a timing.
With Streak you also get the option of creating email templates. Like most marketers you probably have to send a lot of emails that are very similar to each other, with only a few minor changes. A perfectly crafted outreach email asking for a guest post for example. You can create a template for this in minutes and save a lot of time not recreating the same message over and over again. This will make sending out reach emails a lot quicker. The only thing you have left to worry about is coming up with great blog post ideas to pitch to bloggers.
Get Streak. It will make your life easier.
2. Use Gmail Faster
If you are not careful, Gmail can suck your time away. It is a great tool to help you procrastinate when you are trying to put things off, but even when you are trying to actually be productive, Gmail can eat up your time. I like to think that I have learned a few life lessons throughout my existence. One of the most important ones being that you should always use time efficiently. Here are a few ways you can save time on Gmail.
- Multiple Uploads. I like to include images in my posts, even if I am writing that post as a guest author at someone else’s blog. When I am sending that post, I generally have to attach all the images along with the word document. This used to take a few minutes because I would attach each image one at a time. This is a mistake that you can easily avoid. You can save time by uploading multiple files at once. When you click attach a file and the window pops up, you can simply hold control and click on all the files you want to upload to the email in one fell swoop (multiple images and docs all at once).
- Use Gmail Shortcuts. Anyone who is a PC gamer knows that it is faster to do most things with your keyboard than it is to do with your mouse. You save time by using keyboard shortcuts instead of using the mouse to click on the appropriate button on your screen, and this time adds up fast. You can find the full list of Gmail shortcuts here, but here are the most useful ones: undo: z, reply: r, reply all: a, forward: f, save draft: ctr + s, compose: c.
- Make Search Easier. When you get a lot of emails, searching through your archives to find a particular email can be a long process and if it is an especially old email, it can even take hours to find. Usually this happens because most people do not delete any emails and archive everything, so that they never have to lose any email. This is great and all but when you need to go search through your emails to find something, you now have a huge clutter to weed through. Delete emails that you absolutely do not need, especially if it spam. There is no need to archive that.
- View more in your inbox. Aren't you a little annoyed that you have to click next every time you want to see more than 25 messages in your inbox? This just wastes time. Go to your Settings and change the maximum page size in the General tab to 100.
3. Get A Better Understanding Of Your Contacts With Rapportive
You talk to a lot of people and naturally, keeping track of who all these people are, what their likes and dislikes are, and what their deal is, can be difficult. Rapportive does this for you. Every time you are emailing someone or reading an email from someone, Rapportive will display important information about them as well as their recent tweets. You can even attach notes to each of your contacts.
It even gives you the option of connecting with your contact via social media right from your Gmail. Sure, this won’t take the place of any social media management tools but it still a great convenience and just adds to the list of awesome things that Rapportive can do.
4. Undo Sending Stupid Emails
Sometimes you look over an important email a million times before sending it and find no mistakes. You only realize that you had made a horrible mistake in that email seconds after sending it. This is where this very awesome undo-sending email link comes in. It actually allows you to un-send an email for a few seconds after you sent it. (It just doesn't send it for a few seconds after you click send and just cancels it when you press undo) This new undo button can be an absolute life saver.
Set it up by going to Settings and clicking on Labs.
Scroll down until you find Undo Send, click enable and click Save Changes.
5. Tweak Your Inbox: Show Unread Messages First
Weeding through all your messages to find the ones that are unread just makes you less efficient. You can change this by tweaking your inbox to display unopened messages first. Since all your unread messages now float to the top, it will be hard to miss any important emails. As an added bonus, your inbox will also look a lot cleaner and more organized which will make it much easier for your brain to process what’s going on in your inbox. This will also make you less likely to procrastinate because you won’t be tempted to browse through all the emails that you already opened.
Setting this up is simple. Go to Settings again but click on Inbox this time. Where it says Inbox type, choose unread first.
6. Bonus: Remote Sign Out
You may sometimes have to log into your Gmail from an computer that is not yours. If you end up forgetting to log out from that computer, it could end up coming back to bite you. Luckily, you can log out of all computers from anywhere. If you scroll to the bottom of your Gmail page, you should see a link that says details. Click on details and a window will pop up and if you are logged into any other computers, it should give you the option of logging out of all other computers.
How do you tweak Gmail for marketing?
